Elective affinities
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · first published 1962
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…our eyes when every year we'd go through another one of his plays or poems. Admittedly, a lot of his stuff is quite good though. I really like "Die Wahlverwandschaften" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elective_Affinities), it sounds dry if you read the summary but quite an entertaining read. I don't know how good the translation is. I don't really get poetry in general but somehow in song form it works really well. I…
on “Design for Living: What’s Great about Goethe?” ↗…Riane Eisler's The Chalice and the Blade, but also Cao Xueqin's The Dream of the Red Chamber, William Bolitho's Twelve Against the Gods, Cole and Chinoy's project Directors on Directing, and Goethe's Elective Affinities
on “Megalopolis is baffling and plainly nuts but worth it” ↗…"wrong" because it isn't a correct physical theory of wavelengths and spectrum, that's not the point. It's really about the perception of color, which is psychology and not physics. On a similar note, Elective Affinities[2] is a novel about human relationships that is inspired by chemistry. To this day even in English we refer to two persons as having "chemistry" together. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Colours…
on “Goethe’s Aphorisms” ↗