"Wretches, Speak Evil of Me": Goethe and Schiller's Xenions (1896 Edition) (opens in new tab)

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17 pointsbenbreen26d ago2 comments

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>But we expect better from the writers of the past, especially those of the eighteenth century

They did “better” - as just 100 years before they would have just killed each other with some version of a kabob stick.

I'm not familiar with their ouvres, but I am surprised to find myself disagreeing with the Romanticist verse. Am I getting older?

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trhway23d ago

>But we expect better from the writers of the past, especially those of the eighteenth century

They did “better” - as just 100 years before they would have just killed each other with some version of a kabob stick.

gavmor23d ago

I'm not familiar with their ouvres, but I am surprised to find myself disagreeing with the Romanticist verse. Am I getting older?

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