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I recovered my control. The insubordinate impulses I had known retired." He smiled as he sipped his coffee. "You see me now," he added, looking his companion steadily in the eyes, "a sane and commonplace ship's doctor." "I congratulate you " "Vielen Dank." He bowed. "On what you missed, yet almost accomplished," the other finished. "You might have known, like me, the cosmic consciousness!
There is still a boyish notion about dissipation, and they have their own great classic to quote from, who in "Faust" pours forth this rather raw advice for gayety: "Greift nur hinein ins volle Menschenleben! Ein jeder lebt's, nicht vielen ist's bekannt, Und wo Ihr's packt, da ist es interessant!"
He says: “Das Element der Lüsternheit, in dem er sich so zierlich und sinnig benimmt, würde vielen Andern zum Verderben gereichen.” The juxtaposition of these quotations and this appreciation of Sterne is proof sufficient that Goethe considered Sterne the author of the Koran at the time when the notes were made.
This proximity gives rise to a conversation between the two antipodal British authors: Sterne says: “Wir brauchen beide vielen Raum, Your Reverence viel zum Händeringen, Und meine Wenigkeit, zum Pfeifen, Tanzen, Singen.” and later, . . . “Und will von Herzen gern der Thor der Thoren seyn; Jüngst that ich ernst: gleich hielt die Narrheit mich beym Rocke.
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