Goethe is a 6 letter English word.
You can make 57 anagrams from letters in Goethe (eeghot).
Here Goethe's little parable, as he calls it, is peculiarly applicable.
But does this translate into a reason to ignore the giants of the German canon: Goethe, Mann, Brecht?
The story reads exactly like the story of Goethe and Schiller.
Yet Goethe can talk of Hamlet's "pure and most moral nature."
Homer and Shakespeare, Goethe and Dante are clearly not of it.
Architecture is frozen music, Goethe wrote, and to my mind cities are, too.
But perhaps as Goethe has somewhere said, "Experience, after all, is the best teacher."
Goethe recalled later that he had been first asked his age and been complimented that, at 60, he was “well preserved.”
He quoted Goethe's test for every idea about life, "But is it true, is it true for me, now?"
I fought with Goethe for the redemption of a soul sold to the Devil.