[66]: That is, threw into them, as into scrap-baskets, the bits of paper on which he had written his thoughts.—Tr.
[67]: Allusion to Ezekiel.—Tr.
[68]: Literally, God's-box.—Tr.
[69]: Gesprungen seems to mean both vibrated and snapped.
[70]: Haupt- und Staat-actionen, the phrase used by Faust in his first dialogue with Wagner. Schlegel says the title was affixed to dramas designed for marionettes when they treated heroic and historical subjects.—Tr.
[71]: Epiglottis.—Tr.
[72]: What has come into the world feet foremost.—Tr.
[73]: Basselisse (French).—Tr.
[74]: Ladenhüter (shop-keeper) is the German word, meaning goods that keep the store as a sick man keeps his bed,—shop-ridden.—Tr.
[75]: A court that decided matters in dispute among the sovereigns of the German Confederation.—Tr.