More prolegomena to wreaking The Recognitions
Kai Frederik Lorentzen
lorentzen at hotmail.de
Mon Mar 28 06:57:43 CDT 2011
On 27.03.2011 22:13, Mark Kohut wrote:
> Faust. The legend of too much knowledge leading to damnation.
Not in Goethe's version! Check out the last but one scene of the
tragedy's second part: The Angels
take away Faust's immortal soul from the devil to Heaven. Poor
Mephistopheles is wondering:
"Die hohe Seele, die sich mir verpfändet,
Die haben sie mir pfiffig weggepascht."
Kai Frederik
More information about the Pynchon-l
mailing list