In this second volume, the author continues the proverbial "red thread" running through Goethe's oeuvre comprising his personal relationships-with men and boys. They provide the impetus and energy, the fabric and pattern for each and every one of his major works. His writing entails a continuous process of re-iterating, re-living, re-evaluating, re-contextualising his personal experiences, thereby eternalising it-and with it, himself. Goethe is the monument of a universal force he chiselled into words.