Tractatus-Logico Philosophicus

I think I'm finally beginning to understand some early Wittgenstein. He is such a cryptic jerk.
So its like this: I am interpreting him to be saying that The world is a truth-table. (Infinitely long, I assume)

Now I'm not sure if he means that its a truth-table like, thats all there is, or like the truth-table is all we can talk about. I am tending toward the latter. Because Wittgenstein does talk about 'simple objects'. Simple objects are what make up the propositions--propositions are statements about the relations between the simple objects. This is all speculative.
Well we can't speak about the simple objects, only about the relations; I guess.
But the thing is, Wittgenstein never really says what the simple objects are. Atoms? Sense-content? Who knows?

But then its also got this bizarre metaphysical thing going on, which Dr. Baumer pointed out. The world is made up of all possible propositions about the simple objects. (Thats where the truth-table thing came from.) But what the hell are these propositions? Thoughts?
The other bizarre metaphysics is that Wittgenstein talks about the simples as if they were the only possible simples. Every simple object in this Universe is necessary. There are no possible worlds in which any of the simple objects in this world are missing, or in which there are some other additional simple objects. So what these simple objects are is crucial to the whole grounding of his theory. But he never says anything about what these simples are! Atoms? Quarks? Objects? Experiences? Regardless of interpretation it seems bizarre. Not just bizarre, but extremely metaphysical, which goes against the entire positivist project.
So I'm not sure why the positivists worshipped him. Yeah, he wanted to reduce everything to atomic facts. But these atomic facts are so Platonic in nature that its mystical.

(This is most likely all mistaken anyway.)

By the way, the Tractatus is online: http://www.kfs.org/~jonathan/witt/tlph.html

Its fun to attempt to discover what it was Wittgenstein exactly was saying, but at the same time it really makes us philosophers look more like poets. Its like we all are seeking knowledge--if you have a grain of it why don't you explain it in plain language instead of being cryptic and sadistic to all of your readers?

7 - Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.