I've had this book on my shelf for a decade, never really paid much attention to it. I collected a bunch of books about Cagliostro after writing a book review of a biography ages ago.

I just now noticed this wasn't by Johannes von Goethe! Goethe and Cagliostro knew each other, so ... I think it's time to give this book a try. #books #history #Goethe #cagliostro

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Was der Dรผsseldorfer Mentaltrainer Dr. Andreas Leistikow zu Goethes ยปMephistoยซ sagt: Der Germanist beleuchtet in seinem Vortrag das Thema auf seine ganz eigene Weise: Mephisto als heutiger Impulsgeber fรผr Selbsterkenntnis, Sinnfindung und Intuition.

โ–บ https://auxlitera.de/2026/06/14/mephisto/

#goethe #mephisto #augsburg #vortrag
@augsburg

"Der nordische Magnet scheint mรคchtig auf alle Deutschen in Italien zu wirken, denn was wir im Norden treiben beunruhigt sie ganz gewaltig mitten im Sรผden."
#Schiller an #Goethe am 30.11.1803
#Deutschland #Italien
#Goethe bekommt 160 Flaschen Wein angeboten und schreibt am 29.07.1802 an die Freunde, darunter #Schiller :
"Ich bin geneigt diesen Wein kommen zu lassen, wenn einige Freunde daran Teil nehmen wollen. Ich bitte hierbei die Zahl der Bouteillen zu bemerken. Wobei ich denn auf den unvorhergesehenen Fall die proportionierliche Teilnahme an dem allenfallsigen Schaden voraussetze."
Am allenfallsigen Schaden! ๐Ÿ˜ณ
๐Ÿพ๐Ÿพ๐Ÿพ๐Ÿพ๐Ÿพ๐Ÿพ๐Ÿพ๐Ÿพ๐Ÿพ๐Ÿพ๐Ÿพ๐Ÿพ๐Ÿพ๐Ÿพ
#Schiller nimmt schlieรŸlich 40 Flaschen.

I am reading this #book from a picture right now. And I think it will be great to buy every #book that I have read. I've read #Goethe, #Ellison, #books from #Discovery, and a lot of books whose authors I don't remember. Also I have a big #library of books from my #grandparents, and I thought, why not build a big #shelf with books? It will look nice, I think.

#reading #classics #nonfiction #familylegacy #bookshelf #homelibrary

version 1: the letter

"If we happen, under certain circumstances, to have written and sealed and despatched a letter to a friend, which, however, does not find him, but is brought back to us, and we open it at the distance of some considerable time, a singular emotion is produced in us, on breaking up our own seal, and conversing with our altered self as with a third person."

#Goethe #WilhelmMeister #ThomasCarlyle #vol1book2ch1

version 2: the toot

"If we happen, under certain circumstances, to have written and sealed and despatched a [toot] to [the Fediverse], and at the distance of some considerable time it is brought back to us [by a belated boost], and we open it, a singular emotion is produced in us, on breaking up our own seal, and conversing with our altered self as with a third person."

#LateBoosts #MastodonCulture

"... for youth, which is so rich in undeveloped force, knows not what it squanders when, to the anguish which a loss occasions, it adds so many sorrows of its own production, as if it meant then first to give the right value to what is gone forever."

"He likewise felt so convinced that his present loss was the sole, the first, the last, he ever could experience in life, that he turned away from every consolation which aimed at showing that his sorrows might be less than endless."

#Goethe #WilhelmMeister #ThomasCarlyle #vol1book2ch1

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/36483/pg36483.txt

" ... besides the unwearied attentions of his family, the love of his brothers and sisters, which first becomes truly sensible in times of distress and want, ..."

#Goethe #WilhelmMeister #ThomasCarlyle #vol1book2ch1

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/36483/pg36483.txt