More prolegomena to wreaking The Recognitions

[Mark Kohut]

That's why we need everyone in this read.....

Thanks, Kai....Will be relevant, maybe? 

I've actually been browsing in some essays on the Faust legend and then use.....
No time to post much today.............BUT

guy says there were two works of popular fiction published in America right 
around
the time of The Recognitions....one being the novel that became the musical

Damn Yankees........



----- Original Message ----
From: Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Mon, March 28, 2011 7:57:43 AM
Subject: Re: More prolegomena to wreaking The Recognitions


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