Word: eckermann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Silence on the Pedestal. It was this breadth of vision and unity of spirit, plus a high scorn for the battles of the metaphysicians, that aroused the indignation of German pedants and specialists. "People were never thoroughly contented with me," Goethe confided in his last years to Johann Peter Eckermann, the youth who was to become his Boswell. "[They] always wished me otherwise than it has pleased God to make me ... People expected from me some modest expression, humbly setting forth the total unworthiness of my person and my work ... I believed in God and in Nature...
...poet-philosopher lay on his deathbed, and the idolaters whom he could no longer fight off set up on a pedestal the godlike image that has persisted ever since. The unhappy transubstantiation is described by Eckermann himself...
...Paris. Mrs. Joyce hated the Paris alertes, but Joyce could not stand the tranquillity of village life. They returned to St. Gérand-le-Puy for Joyce's birthday (Feb. 2), remained until the end of March. Joyce took long walks, read Goethe's conversations with Eckermann, occasionally went to a movie. He also read all the newspapers, though he would discuss politics only with close friends. Shortly before the time the Nazis moved to Norway, the Joyces moved to Vichy...