"I went to see Wittgenstein and told him I had decided to leave the theological college. He said, 'A separation has occurred in your life.' We discussed what I should do next.

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WITTGENSTEIN: It is essential that you get away from Cambridge at once. There is no oxygen in Cambridge for you. It doesn't matter for me, as I manufacture my own oxygen. You need to get among ordinary people of a type that you at present know nothing about. One of my pupils, on my advice, has gone to work in Woolworth's; now that is the sort of thing you should do. Try and get a job in some large store or firm, where you will meet ordinary people. It is some such experience as this that you need.

 

DRURY: The Archdeacon of Newcastle was recently visiting the College, and said he wanted someone to come as a voluntary worker to help run a club for the numerous unemployed on Tyneside. Accommodation would be provided, but there would be no salary. From my scholarship I have enough in hand to keep myself for a time.

 

WITTGENSTEIN: If you feel you can do that, go there. But it sounds to me like trying to climb Mount Everest. "

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