NP: Sympathy for the Devil

[Mark Kohut]

 Mick said so re The Master & Margarita..



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From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
To: Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> 
Cc: Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com>; Pynchon Liste <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2012 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: NP: Sympathy for the Devil


I agree with Henry's aesthetics, but wonder where Joe got his literary influence re. The Master and the Margarita? 

The Devil of the song and the novel are classic Tricksters.  Not so much evil as recklessly playful.  Just riding the roller coaster of Humanity.

David Morris

On Sunday, December 23, 2012, Joe Allonby wrote:

I understood the lyrics to be inspired by "The Master and the Margarita".
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>On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 7:01 AM, Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey, Godard liked the son well enough to feature it a movie!
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>> Has anyone who knows this song considered that the last verse subverts
>> the name that one is likely to have guessed beforehand, namely "the
>> devil?" All of the conflated opposites at the suggest that the writer
>> believes that things are not as they seem, and that, while people are
>> more comfortable calling the entity that causes tragedies "Lucifer" or
>> "the Devil," the entity that is often described by some people, e.g.
>> the Westboro Baptist church, as one that will send your soul to hell,
>> i.e. "lay your soul to waste" if you don't pay tribute, i.e. "use all
>> your well-learned politess" is God, not Lucifer.
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>> It makes the song a whole lot more interesting, IMO.
>>
>> Yours truly,
>> ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
>> Henry Musikar, CISSP
>> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20
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