Fragment 41 and Fragment 53

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These two writings probably shed more light on the meaning of this
collection than anything else. Much to the aggravation of Happy
Hiram, Fragment 53 is heavily dependent on the early philosophy of
Ludwig Wittgenstein. Towards the end of his Tractatus Logico-
Philosophicus, he summarizes his whole argument in the statement,
"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."
Frustratingly, that is nothing more than a tautology--when a person is
not speaking, that person IS being silent. True, one could make
gutteral noises which do not constitute speech and therefore be not
speaking and be not silent, but this is Wittgenstein. But unless
directed to these passages, most readers would not discover their
significance until the bafflement of the author-character's
incapacitating behavior is too unacceptable. For the uninitiated
reader, the remarks in the Preface may lead them to Fragment 53, but
the value of these two fragments may not be quite clear. For one
thing, why make them fragments, when there are titled entries which
are shorter than these texts? For another thing, what do they say
about the problems encountered everywhere else in the book?