You can only get so far as a Hindu scholar with Hinduism for Idiots as your guide, W. says. Why haven't I learnt that yet?
You don't actually know anything, do you?, W. says. 'You've got no body of knowledge. W. has ancient Hebrew, of course, and he can play classical guitar. And there are whole oeuvres with which he is familiar. He's read his way through Husserl, for example. He's not bewildered by Leibniz. – 'You see, I know something. What do you know?'
Socrates knew he knew nothing: that was his wisdom, and the beginning of all wisdom, W. says. But there's a difference between knowing nothing and knowing nothing, he says. There's a difference between knowing you know nothing and setting forth again in your ignorance, and wallowing in your ignorance like a hippo in a swamp.
'You don't want to know', W. says. And I'm drinking to forget what little I did know. There's nothing left for me, he says. Nothing but the empty sky, and the Zen-like emptiness of my head.
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