Tuesday, August 24, 2021

 

On a Candidate for Public Office

Goethe, Ephemerides, in his Werke, Bd. 37 (Weimar: Hermann Böhlau, 1896), p. 95 (my translation):
Altum petit ut crepitus in balneo redditus.

He seeks a high place, like a fart let in a bathtub.



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