Three nerds went down to the River Cam. North Whitehead was in a rowing race. His dad, Alfred Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, and Ludwig Wittgenstein watched.
It was a “passionate afternoon,” said Russell, who got really worked up and continued to be pissed into the afternoon because North had lost.
Wittgenstein, though, was another story. He was disguste…
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