<story><title>The writers who translated Goethe became some of the best writers in English</title><url>https://www.neh.gov/article/cult-goethe</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nonrandomstring</author><text>Here&amp;#x27;s a lineage of energy that should interest hackers&lt;p&gt;Goethe -&amp;gt; Mary Wollstonecraft -&amp;gt; Mary Shelley -&amp;gt; Byron &amp;amp; Percy Shelley -&amp;gt; Ada Lovelace&lt;p&gt;Ada got inspiration from the romanticism of Byron which burned
brightly in the circle of influences of the Shelleys who were
interested in animism (proto-neurology). Shelley&amp;#x27;s interest in
animist-necromancy and artificial minds created by electricity is
rooted in childhood trauma of her mother (Wollstonecraft) dying in
childbirth. Mary sought a way to revive her spirit though science.
Maybe, like all hermeneutic interpretations it&amp;#x27;s fuzzy, but there&amp;#x27;s a
trajectory from the Greek influences on German philosophy to the
imaginings that underpin the computer age.</text></comment>
<story><title>The writers who translated Goethe became some of the best writers in English</title><url>https://www.neh.gov/article/cult-goethe</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Veen</author><text>An interesting fact I learned recently: Xi Jinping is huge Goethe fan.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lrb.co.uk&amp;#x2F;the-paper&amp;#x2F;v43&amp;#x2F;n11&amp;#x2F;edward-luttwak&amp;#x2F;goethe-in-china&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lrb.co.uk&amp;#x2F;the-paper&amp;#x2F;v43&amp;#x2F;n11&amp;#x2F;edward-luttwak&amp;#x2F;goeth...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>