Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p I well recall the day of Waismann's funeral. Hart, who had considerable respect for him, attended, and arrived late at the Hart group, wrapped in his gown, which was soaked in heavy rain. Waismann was a Jew...and the philosophers, after silently consigning Waismann to his grave, were about to leave when Ryle lept onto a nearby tabular gravestone and delivered an extempore Periclean oration. The proceedings, attended only by philosphers, all in soggy flapping academic dress, resembled a gathering of immense crows clustered around a carrion, and excited the bewildered attention of some passing locals. But this was Oxford, and the burial took place close to the site of Osney Abbey, near the railway station, where the trains in those days always paused as a token of respect as they entered the city of dreaming spires. So was buried the Oxford philosopher who had enjoyed or perhaps suffered the longest connection with Wittgenstein.. }
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- Friedrich_Waismann text "I well recall the day of Waismann's funeral. Hart, who had considerable respect for him, attended, and arrived late at the Hart group, wrapped in his gown, which was soaked in heavy rain. Waismann was a Jew...and the philosophers, after silently consigning Waismann to his grave, were about to leave when Ryle lept onto a nearby tabular gravestone and delivered an extempore Periclean oration. The proceedings, attended only by philosphers, all in soggy flapping academic dress, resembled a gathering of immense crows clustered around a carrion, and excited the bewildered attention of some passing locals. But this was Oxford, and the burial took place close to the site of Osney Abbey, near the railway station, where the trains in those days always paused as a token of respect as they entered the city of dreaming spires. So was buried the Oxford philosopher who had enjoyed or perhaps suffered the longest connection with Wittgenstein.".