Ah, thanks for that background, it makes perfect sense but (as you know :) ) it's not something I knew before.
Wow, that Goethe quote is hilarious, I love that wry self-awareness in it. On the contary, that boy was all the more certain to be in the right and to be fair since he acknowledged Maria Theresia's personal goodness, her beauty and her other virtues." Heh :D
...not even gonna touch the pamphlets, though. Blergh.
(Totally randomly, just because your icon reminded me: I consider it all your fault that I am so weirded out that there's a German Lit RPF category for YT and Goethe is in it but not Schiller!)
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Wow, that Goethe quote is hilarious, I love that wry self-awareness in it. On the contary, that boy was all the more certain to be in the right and to be fair since he acknowledged Maria Theresia's personal goodness, her beauty and her other virtues." Heh :D
...not even gonna touch the pamphlets, though. Blergh.
(Totally randomly, just because your icon reminded me: I consider it all your fault that I am so weirded out that there's a German Lit RPF category for YT and Goethe is in it but not Schiller!)