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Goethe wa Subete o Itta (Goethe Said Everything) begins at a family dinner, where the eminent Goethe scholar Tōichi Hiroba comes across a Goethe quotation he has never seen before, printed on the tag of a tea bag. His attempt to trace the words to their source turns into a journey. The publisher describes the book as an academic adventure.
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