![]() I’ve always been fascinated by the impression this hoax made on all the poets of that day–how desperately they wished for a Northern equivalent of the Greek poets!Ĭomparing it to Massenet’s opera Werther, I’d say the librettists did a pretty good job of making a dramatic musical presentation from the material. I skipped almost all the “ Ossian” segments, although Goethe must have been thrilled to include his translations (I guess they were Goethe’s translations into German). ![]() ![]() Very modern as she struggles with the question of telling her husband. I was particularly impressed with Goethe’s description of Charlotte’s state of mind after Werther has pressed his suit and kissed her. A perfect picture of a kind of youth that still exists: sensitive, argumentative, philosophical, and desperate to die for love. Sturm und Drang, romanticism, the first emo boy, first copycat suicides, and so important to European culture. I enjoyed this much more than I thought I would. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe by R.D. ![]()
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![]() Soooooo, I don't know what caused the upper levels of my nefarious exoskeleton to short-circuit so thoroughly when I originally read Silver Shark, but slightly out of my mind at the time I must have been. Yes, I am quite hilarious indeed, I know. Did I just say that aloud write that down? I didn't? Oh, good. ![]() I should be severely punished or something. What a disgracefully ungrateful IA Addict I am. I mean, why else would I have rated this story 4 bloody pathetic diminutive stars the first time I read it? Because I was high on some superiorly superior stuff at the time, you say? There is a slight possibility you might not be entirely wrong here. ![]() It's official, I'm a complete, total, utter, absolute nitwitted dimwit.
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