"Wretches, Speak Evil of Me": Goethe and Schiller's Xenions (1896 Edition) (publicdomainreview.org)
12 points by benbreen 3 days ago
trhway 4 hours ago
>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.