But I will not inflict upon you any further description of my tusslings with Teutonic interpreters of Faust-with their egos and non-egos, their moral- sthetic symbolisms and so on. Let us leave them to the tender mercies of Goethe himself, who was not sparing of his ridicule in regard to his commentators, nor, alas, at times in regard to his countrymen. 'Of all nations, ' he says, 'the Germans understand me least.... Such people make life a burden...