AtDDtA1: Evil

[David Casseres]

On 1/31/07, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Faust
>
> Faust or Faustus is the protagonist of a popular
> German tale of a pact with the Devil, assumed to be
> based on the figure of the German magician and
> alchemist Dr. Johann Georg Faust (approximately
> 1480–1540). It has been used as the basis for many
> different fictional works ...
>
> "with little risk of overstatement"
>
> For Ray Ipsow?  For Thomas Pynchon?  Cf. Blicero?  Cf.
> Brock Vond?  Let me know ...



Speaking as one who once played Marlowe's Faustus, and recently saw a
stunning and revealing production of it, all of Pynchon's books are all
about Faust.
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