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I wouldn't have thought about reading Goethe if we hadn't been sitting in the rain last November talking about Nietzsche, and we wouldn't have been talking about Nietzsche if Helen hadn't been trying to explain Steiner to me for the hundredth time, and she wouldn't have been trying to explain Steiner to me if someone hadn't recently advised me to read Schopenhauer and I'd discovered that you couldn't really understand Schopenhauer if you didn't understand Kant, and she said the only thing she knew about Kant was that he'd influenced Goethe, who Nietzsche used as his model of the Ubermensch, and who'd also influenced Steiner very profoundly but in ways she didn't fully understand because she'd never read Goethe, so I said I would.
