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Conversations with Goethe

Aug 18, 2008   //   by The Geecologist   //   Lies  //  View Comments
Forty Stories (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

The English, Goethe said in parting, are the shining brown varnish on the sad chiffonier of civilization. Lieutenant Whitby blushed most noticeably.

The Educational Experience

Jul 20, 2008   //   by The Geecologist   //   Lies  //  View Comments
Forty Stories (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

What a wonderful time you’ll have, we told them, when the experience is over, done, completed. You will all, we told them, be more beautiful than you are now, and more employable too. You will have a grasp of the total situation; the total situation will have a grasp on you.