Posted: Jan 20, 2014 1:03 am
Hmm, not really; I don't think this line appears in any works he intended for publication - it appears in his personal notebooks. Now, I have notebooks in which you could find doodles, undeveloped fragments of thoughts, weird phrases, nonsense and conjecture that I wouldn't ever publish - you could doubtless find very silly stuff in there that I would have to agree is silly - it wouldn't necessarily reflect any position I hold seriously. Personally, I wouldn't take the notebooks as reflecting anything more than part of a creative process, of experimenting, even playing, and working out. Not of a principle he was necessarily wedded to.