Thanks for asking! I’m reading essays written by M.M. Bakhtin. He was a Russian literary critic & philosopher. He interests me because I like learning how things are made and work— novels “work” in different ways & people like Bakhtin analyze literary text & language.

I’m on the part where he is talking about Goethe.

“Human creativity has its own internal law. It must be human (and civilly expedient), but it must also be necessary, consistent, and true, like nature. Any arbitrariness, fabrication, or abstract fantasy was repulsive to Goethe.”