Satan isn’t actually a character in either Marlowe’s “The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus” or Goethe’s “Faust”. Only Mephistopheles, one of Satan’s lieutenants.
Incidentally, I’ve played Mephistopheles in Marlowe’s Faustus, and Faust in Goethe’s. Of the two, I prefer Marlowe. Happy endings are for the weak; after all, “He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.”
Urlance,
If you haven’t already read Narbonic, Shaenon’s previous work, you should.
Without spoilers, there are whole story arcs that deal with the Dante/Milton cosmology. They’re side stories, but they’re also some of the best.
Satan had a point.
“Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.”
How’d I do?
“We’re not part of the reality-based community”. That line is going to stick with me for a long time……
It sounds vaguely like something someone in the Bush administration said, back in the day.
This is years later, and we WISH the Bush administration reality was still around.
Speak for yourself. We’re still dealing with the fallout of their delusion that they could reshape reality at will.
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
wait… is that from paradise lost?
That or Faust, or maybe the Divine Comedy. I should probably read these things.
It’s been awhile, but I don’t think Lucifer has many speaking lines in Marlowe’s text.
Not Dante’s, either.
Paradise Lost, Book 1, lines 254-255.
Satan isn’t actually a character in either Marlowe’s “The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus” or Goethe’s “Faust”. Only Mephistopheles, one of Satan’s lieutenants.
Incidentally, I’ve played Mephistopheles in Marlowe’s Faustus, and Faust in Goethe’s. Of the two, I prefer Marlowe. Happy endings are for the weak; after all, “He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.”
Wait, Faust gets a happy ending in Goethe’s version?
A mind is a terrible thing to go to waste, and a wasteland is a terrible thing to come from a mind.
…I hope that sounds as trite yet mildly creepy as I meant it to.
“A mind is a terrible organ to shovel.” -Ed, from Ed, Edd, n’ Eddy.
Wow, J, that was… hella dumb. At least you’ll regret it in three and a half years.
Laugh, and the world laughs with you…
Otherwise, the world laughs at you.
A mind is a terrible thing.
Paradise Lost! Squeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
As if this comic weren’t already awesome enough!
Urlance,
If you haven’t already read Narbonic, Shaenon’s previous work, you should.
Without spoilers, there are whole story arcs that deal with the Dante/Milton cosmology. They’re side stories, but they’re also some of the best.