Goethe wrote in 1786: “Mit dem neuen Leben, das einem nachdenkenden Menschen die Betrachtung eines neuen Landes gewährt, ist nichts zu vergleichen. – Nothing can be compared to the new life a considerate observer of a new country gains.”
In 2003 I saw a painting of Goethe’s time in Italy in a nice restaurant in Rome.
And now, poor Goethe sits in the crowded, noisy Goethe-Bar in the transit area of Frankfurt Airport.
Anybody still feeling like Goethe?
“Nothing can be compared to the new life a considerate observer of a new country gains.”
Running from airport to conference hotel, and back to the airport – it seems often so difficult to make the time available, even when the opportunity is given in terms of travel. Transiting?
