AtDDtA1: Evil

[Dave Monroe]

   "It swiftly became evident to Roy Ipsow that his
friend was in town to conclude a bargain with forces
that might be described, with little risk of
overstatement, as evil....'" (AtD, Pt. I, Ch. 3, p.
30)


"a bargain with forces"

Cf. ...

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 ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust

E.g., ...

Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Doctor
Faustus (1604)

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/779

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/811

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Texts/faustus.html

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust (1806, 1832)

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2229

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2230

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14591

U.s.w., et soforthiam ...

Pacts with the Devil: Faust and Precursors 

http://www.usao.edu/~facshaferi/FAUST.HTML

The Faust Tradition from Marlowe to Mann

http://www.csuchico.edu/~goulding/faust/faustlinks.htm

Works which retell or allude to the Faust tale

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust#Works_which_retell_or_allude_to_the_Faust_tale


"with little risk of overstatement"

For Ray Ipsow?  For Thomas Pynchon?  Cf. Blicero?  Cf.
Brock Vond?  Let me know ...


 
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