Tuesday 24 June 2008

Wittgenstein's cat

Cambridge seems to be good at graveyards, but even so, this has to be one of the best: the Ascension Parish Burial Ground, up Huntingdon Road.


Not only does it have graves of famous people (James Frazer of the Golden Bough, a clutch of Darwins, and, of course, Wittgenstein), and inscriptions by Eric Gill...

...and a stone-masonry inside the (non-functioning) church:

It also has a beautiful Bengal cat...


...who's very fond of Wittgenstein:



And it's a perfect place for Wittgenstinian contemplation: