Satan in Lit was Re: No Country plausibility issues (spoilers!)

[the Robot Vegetable]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Tim Strzechowski wrote:

> I've often toyed with the idea of teaching a "Satan in Literature" course, something that would draw from the traditional Western canon (Dante, Marlowe, Milton, Goethe, etc.) but also include readings of characters that have obvious Satanic parallels (Shelley's Creature or Melville's Confidence Man, for example) ... including McCarthy's Judge Holden, who -- for me -- seems to evoke otherworldly qualities that make him more of a supernatural force rather than a mere "monster" image.
> 
> Don't have my copy of BM handy at the moment, but when I get to it I'll expand on this.

Recently, I read _Doctor Faustus_ by Thomas Mann, prompted by the 
comparison someone here made of _DF_ is to _Gravity's Rainbow_
to _Joseph and His Brothers_ is to _ATD_.  Thanks! Whoever that
was.

In it, Satan says, "What is art today? A pilgrimmage on a road of peas."