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"Wretches, Speak Evil of Me": Goethe and Schiller's Xenions (1896 Edition)

8 pointsby benbreenlast Tuesday at 6:45 AM1 commentview on HN

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trhwaytoday at 12:01 AM

>But we expect better from the writers of the past, especially those of the eighteenth century

They did “better” - as just 100 years before they would have just killed each other with some version of a kabob stick.