November 23, 2024
Letter

Comments for: Famous last words

Katherine Heidinger (BDN, Feb. 19) is incorrect; the last words of Goethe’s “Faust” are not “More light,” but eight lines from a “Chorus mysticus.” The lines rhyme in German. In rough translation, the last two lines, the very last words, are, “The eternal feminine draws us on.”… Read More

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