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Originally Posted by Juicy D. Links
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sor...27s_Apprentice
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Der Zauberlehrling is extremely well-known in the German-speaking world. The lines in which the apprentice implores the returning sorcerer to help him with the mess he has created have turned into a cliché, especially the line Die Geister, die ich rief ("The spirits that I called"), a garbled version of one of Goethe's lines, which is often used to describe a situation where somebody summons help or uses allies that he cannot control, especially in politics.
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too intellectual for this board probably ;)