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Tableaux Vivants II. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Die Wahlverwandtschaften,1809 Elective Affinities

The Count, a keen-sighted man, soon saw through the party, their inclinations, dispositions, wishes, and capabilities, and by some means or other contrived to bring Luciana to a new kind of exhibition, which was perfectly suited to her. “I see here,” he said, “a number of persons with fine figures, who would surely be able to … Continue reading

Tableaux Vivants. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Die Wahlverwandtschaften,1809 Elective Affinities

The Christmas holidays were approaching; and it became at once clear to him that the very thing which he wanted was a representation with real figures of one of those pictures of the scene in the stable a sacred exhibition such as at this holy season good Christians delight to offer to the divine Mother … Continue reading