...can both be recognized as locations of contrasting "peaks" of humanity, of and in history...
with deeply differing ideas of man, world, nature, life, and God.
yet both locations are in historical fact at most replicas of what their realities actually were; and are. both were destroyed over time: Golgotha several times; Goethe's house on Frauenplan was gutted by aerial bombardment just weeks before the end of WWII.
and still another lesson to learn about history and humanity at these special historic locations is how few of the thousands of pilgrims and tourists inquire even enough to learn that what they are seeing is rather what they are believing than the historical realities of either place.
comforting human, historical deceptions.
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