Describes the 1919 meeting between Russell and Wittgenstein. Russell meets him at the Hague hoping to bring him back to cambridge and have him take over as his ideological successor. Wittgenstein infroms him that he not  returning and also what they both already know is true. Russell's life work is out of date and eclipsed by Wittgensteins.  Many lyrics reworked from Russell's letters describing the event.

The Guns of August

Hague Reunion

Opening track. Slow build up and a big ending telling the situation in the summer of 1914. Wittgenstein is in school in England, but is an Austrian. He has a falling out with Russell and Moore over his writing and returns to Austria just as the war breaks out. He fights on the Austrian side and his (probably) boyfriend and professors and close friends are on the English side.

The Guns Of August

John Maynard Keynes, the widely admired and widely cursed economist, wrote to his wife one day in 1929: “Well, God has arrived. I met him on the 5:15 train.”
God in this case was Ludwig Wittgenstein returning to Cambridge after 4 years of war and 10 years of poverty. 
Lyrics are mostly pulled from letters from the time describing Wittgenstein with obvious double meaning. Good bass line too.

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