{"id":1593,"date":"2012-03-06T12:35:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T16:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=1593"},"modified":"2013-08-29T22:25:45","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T02:25:45","slug":"analects-of-the-core-faust-on-his-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2012\/03\/06\/analects-of-the-core-faust-on-his-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Goethe on Faust&#8217;s studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2012\/03\/faust-wood.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1594\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2012\/03\/faust-wood.png\" alt=\"faust-wood\" width=\"319\" height=\"261\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2012\/03\/faust-wood.png\"><\/a>Well, that&#8217;s Philosophy I&#8217;ve read, \/ And Law and Medicine, and I fear \/ Theology, too, from A to Z; \/ Hard studies all, that have cost me dear. \/ And so I sit, poor silly man \/ No wiser now than when I began.<\/p>\n<p>[Habe nun, ach! Philosophie, \/ Juristerey und Medicin, \/ Und leider auch Theologie! \/ Durchaus studirt, mit hei\u00dfem Bem\u00fchn. \/ Da steh\u2019 ich nun, ich armer Thor! \/ Und bin so klug als wie zuvor&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2013\u2013 the scholar Faust, speaking in Goethe&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/de.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Faust_-_Der_Trag%C3%B6die_erster_Teil\">play<\/a> by that name (lines 354\u201359), and sounding rather like a Core student growing impatient for the start of the spring break recess. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Faust-Part-Oxford-Worlds-Classics\/dp\/019953621X\">Translation<\/a> by David Luke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that&#8217;s Philosophy I&#8217;ve read, \/ And Law and Medicine, and I fear \/ Theology, too, from A to Z; \/ Hard studies all, that have cost me dear. \/ And so I sit, poor silly man \/ No wiser now than when I began. [Habe nun, ach! Philosophie, \/ Juristerey und Medicin, \/ Und [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3691],"tags":[48735,3831,3693,3694,406],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1593"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3153,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions\/3153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}