Pergamonmuseum

The Pergamonmuseum is Berlin's massive museum of ancient art and architecture. The only thing that would make it more impressive would be if it itself was taken apart, shipped to some distant country and, like the Pergamon Altar, enclosed in an even more enormous museum.

Currywurst usw.

Back in Berlin for the first time since 1999. Ate currywurst and pommes at Curry Mitte, tafelspitz at the Brecht Museum Kellerrestaurant, and a list of stuff too long to name at the Schwarzwaldstube in Mitte. Hat super geschmeckt.

Oberkommando des Heeres

Another interesting detail about Austin's notes for How to Do Things With Words I noticed:

The cover page for his Harvard lectures in 1952-1953 (lectures VII, VIII, IX, X (1952) lectures VIII, IX, X, XI (1953)) (p.101 in the volume) is a heavy stock piece of purple paper that Austin must have picked up during his time in the intelligence services in World War II.

The cover looks like this:

Oberkommando des Heeres

Heeres-Personalamt

HARVARD IX

Personalakten

für

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Uttering and Acting

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'Oberkommando des Heeres' translates as 'Army Supreme Command', and 'Personalamt' is something like 'Personnel Office', while 'Personalakten' are 'Personal Files'. Austin has written in his own information in the spaces provided on the cover sheet. This strikes me as hilarious.