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





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