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Can anyone translate or give the jist of the speech Kai does in German? Danke! [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
I sort of translated in a past thread, it’s from the intro to Goethe’s Faust. This time I refuse to be responsible for a translation of Faust and found what seems to be the standard one for you:
It’s by George Madison Priest (Priest! AHA!)
It’s the Poet (or writer’s) response to the theater manager whose earlier speech presents a very practical view of what the audience wants–just entertainment.
Poet: Go hence and seek yourself another slave!
What! Shall the poet take that highest right,
The Right of Man, that Right which Nature gave,
And wantonly for your sake trifle it away?
How doth he over every heart hold sway?
How doth he every element enslave?
etc., etc.
What it all means I will not venture to guess. Did you know that Faust has a section called Walpurgis Night? Coincidence or……
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elmey