TR . . sure Gaddis is christian in perverse way (shade of gray)

Thu Apr 14 06:04:45 CDT 2011

On 14.04.2011 03:13, Michael Bailey wrote:

> Goethe's formula allows Faust to be saved because he at last finds
> happiness in the thought that he is helping others

Very American and not quite correct. What saves Faust's ass is that he 
never gives up trying ...
As the Angels (cf. 11936-7) have it: "/Wer immer strebend sich bemüht, 
den können wir erlösen/."

> ... not to mention finding clear 20th century equivalents to the medieval
> devil/God entities or their Enlightenment version, or making it clear
> that such distinctions aren't always easily drawn
>
>

Neither Thomas Mann ("Doktor Faustus") nor Michail Bulgakow  ("Master i 
Margarita") had any problems with that, so ...

KFL

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