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I enjoyed the trophies of inadequacy line very much. Might even rep you for it.
The point might not be to entirely understand that stuff otherwise if you did it's taught you nothing new, except being a reminder you could have written it in the first place. I have no shame in admitting that of the reams of such things I've read I can hardly remember any and can quote even less, but I'm always capable of admiring it on its own terms.
What never fails to knock me over is the ability of some philosophers to express a complicated idea in very few words. Given that Wittgenstein treats the operation of language seriously that helps with the context of approaching his work, which for me is half the battle. I need to personally be interested in/share a belief with the aims of a philosopher before I commit to them, rather than read the entire established canon to justify its and my existence - developing an understanding of the writer is just as important as appreciating the ideas to me.