Faust A Tragedy, Parts One and Two

He's really into botany and ... He's... his most famous work is Faust and he had completely got it.

and he unpacks Faust again and the Faust we see today is the Faust he wrote or large parts he wrote during the time of the Jena set.

well the alternative to that is to attempt to practice finding what's good I suppose even in the darkest spots you know like when my wife a while back my wife was afflicted with with what she had been told would be a terminal cancer and in fact the cancer that she had had only been reported by 200 people and every single one of them died within 10 months so it was pretty damn dismal you know and I watched her nearly die daily for like nine months it was rough and then she had surgical complications that you know the surgery probably it was certainly one of the factors that saved her life but it also put her in great peril you know and she what did she do to cope with that well she turned to the things that she had in her life that were positive right she really opened herself up for example to the love of her children in a way that even though she had been a very good mother and had a very close relationship with her kids she found a dimension of love of of that maternal love that was fathomless I would say and that really helped her you know and she also decided when her father her father had to cope with the long-term neurological degeneration of his wife she had prefrontal dementia and she deteriorated from the age of about 55 to about 70 you know in the way that neurological diseases take you out piece by piece and he did that he was stellar man he took care of her like a champ and like he was a real man about time but he's he just reoriented himself in a selfless manner that was something to behold and he was also willing to accept help and that's another thing that happened to Tammy when she was ill is that she abandoned the law of her pretensions and she allowed people into her life to support her and that was also part of that practice of being grateful even under dreadful circumstances and Jordan this is where suffering is not ever something that we should go out and seek but if suffering finds us if we if we react rightly to it it it is in its own way or it can be at least in its own way enobling and I'm thinking of a good friend of mine whose wife ultimately died of dementia for four or five years she didn't know him but he went every day even so and you could say well why did he bother? Well just in case she did know and because that was the duty of a husband for a wife in extremists and we can say well let's try to you know baptize the suffering let's try to make the most of this or we can say it's all too hard and we can euthanize people we can institutionalize people and I just think it's important that we choose the better way as far as we humanly can we should choose the better way and again if we go back to the to the teachings of holy mother church I mean it's best if you get something out of the sacraments but even if you don't you should keep going because you just never know and maybe even if you don't think you're getting anything out of it you might actually be getting something out of it which is beyond your comprehension but is nevertheless making a difference.

He said it would be like if Goethe had written Faust and was the right-hand advisor to Napoleon or Frederick the Great or something like that.

Gerta at Weirmar toiling to the last, completed Faust when 80 years were passed.