Als Hintergrund habe ich eine Seite meiner alten Schulausgabe von Faust I eingescannt,
eigentlich mit dem Hintergedanken, dass meine ganzen Kommentare von damals auch noch sichtbar sind. Die passten aber leider nicht mehr drauf in der Größe und sind auch nicht so gut lesbar, weil mit Bleistift geschrieben.
Es ist die Szene, wo der Pudel sich in Fausts Studierzimmer verwandelt ... wem das was sagt :-)
Aber das Pudelkern-Zitat war mir dann doch zu banal ...
For the background I scanned a page of my old school copy of 'Faust I'. I hoped you could read all my remarks I made then ... but it didn't turn out the right size (if I'd reduce it you couldn't read anything).
It's in Faust's study, when the poodle shifts ...
("If I'm to share this room with you,
Poodle, then leave off howling,
Then leave off growling!
Such a distracting fellow I can't view
Or suffer to have near me.
One of us two, or I or you,
Must quit this cell, I fear me.
I'm loath your right as guest thus to undo.
The door is open, you've a passage free.
But what is this I now must see!
Can that happen naturally?
Is it phantom? Is it reality?
How long and broad the poodle grows!
He rises up in mighty pose,
'Tis not a dog's form that he shows!
What spectre have I sheltered thus?
He's like a hippopotamus
With fiery eyes, jaws terrible to see.
Oh, mine you are most certainly.
For such as your half-hellish crew
The Key of Solomon will do.")
LOL
I so loved it! And still do ...
(The quote translates: 'Dear friend, all theory is grey,
And green the golden tree of life.')
(Source: http://www.levity.com/alchemy/faustidx.html)
Thanks for stopping by
Suzanne
