“Six persons sat round the great oak table in the wainscoted Speise Saal of that cozy hostelry, the Kneiper Hof at Konigsberg. It was late into the night. Under ordinary circumstances, they would have been in bed, but having arrived by the last train from Dantzic, and having supped on German fare, it had seemedContinue reading “What was ‘The Philosopher’s Joke?’”