As an Oxford student, he had discovered Wittgenstein after jumping out of a window at the upmarket Randolph Hotel to escape a brawl: he snatched Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus from a friend as he was being carried to the ambulance and became bewitched by the book whilst recuperating in hospital.

David Edmonds, Parfit: a philosopher and his mission to save morality, Princeton, 2023, p. 108