Goldschmidt hørte til den generation af yngre intellektuelle, for hvem Enten - Eller var en veritabel åbenbaring. Som redaktør af det satiriske ugeblad Corsaren skrev han da også en begejstret anmeldelse, som Kierkegaard kun kunne være tilfreds med. Det var han derimod ikke med Goldschmidts tilknytning til Corsaren og da slet ikke, da bladet fik den gode, onde idé at fremstille ham som aparte figur med uens bukseben. På ingen tid forandredes hans forhold til den københavnske befolkning, under hvis begloende blikke han følte sig degraderet fra mestertænker til landsbytosse. Og samtidig ophøjet fra digter til martyr.

Goldschmidt belonged to the generation of younger intellectuals, for whom Enten - Eller [Either - Or] was a veritable revelation. As the editor of the satirical weekly Corsaren he wrote an enthusiastic review, with which Kierkegaard could only be satisfied. He was not, however, satisfied with Goldschmidt's connection with Corsaren, and not at all when the weekly got the good, wicked idea of exhibiting him as an odd figure with trouser legs of uneven length. In no time his relationship with the citizenry of Copenhagen was transformed, and he felt himself degraded in their staring eyes from the great thinker to the village idiot. And at the same time elevated from poet to martyr.

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