<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>Borrible</author><text>&amp;quot;America, yours is the better lot&lt;p&gt;Than is our continent’s, the old.&lt;p&gt;You have no ruined castles’ rot&lt;p&gt;Nor marbles cold.&lt;p&gt;Nor is your inner peace affected&lt;p&gt;In your present active life&lt;p&gt;By useless thought which recollected&lt;p&gt;Lead to useless strife.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, as quoted in Christian Melz &amp;quot;Goethe and America&amp;quot; in The English Journal 38 (1949): 248.&lt;p&gt;Well, as Faulkner wrote in &amp;#x27;Requiem for a Nun&amp;#x27;:
&amp;quot;The past is never dead. It&amp;#x27;s not even past.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;------------------------------------------------------&lt;p&gt;And now let&amp;#x27;s see if that Deepl.com AI will become a great writer in the future:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;America, you have it better&lt;p&gt;Than our continent, the old one,&lt;p&gt;You have no ruined castles&lt;p&gt;And no basalts.&lt;p&gt;You do not disturb in the interior,&lt;p&gt;To living time,&lt;p&gt;Useless remembrance&lt;p&gt;And futile strife.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Hm, there is still a lot to be desired.
But probably a lot better than me.</text></comment>