I was just heaving aside piles of books in my library and happened to come across my dogeared ol' copy of The Jew of Linz by Kimberly Cornish.
For anyone who hasn't read this, the basic premise is that the 20th Century was the outcome of a personal feud between Ludwig Wittgenstein and Hitler. How? Well, the book contends that the two met during their shared year at a boy's school in Linz, and aside from having contests to see who could whistle Wagner better, Wittgenstein also taught Hitler a series of mystical insights that allowed both of them to attain psychic powers by reading Schopenhauer.
Yes kids, this is shelved in non-fiction.
Now, my first thought when I originally read this book was that, much like the mythology behind Roswell, it made for shite history, but it would make a helluva WB teen series. Seriously though, the chapters on magick are actually fairly interesting, and the book does a bangup job of whittling away a spare afternoon. Just wondering: anyone else read it, and if so, whaddja think? |
