As Oscar is doing the rounds....

[f4f3]

"In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust."

Not what I was looking for (which was "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.") but very appropriate....

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[morgaine-x.livejournal.com]

Your looked-for quote sounds like my book reviews: "I liked it." "I didn't like it." There may be reasons, but that's about it, when it comes to the crunch.

Leading to... I did a course at university called "Faust & the Magus Tradition" which was for some strange reason held by the German department, and it was the most interesting thing I studied (especially as a chemistry major). Bulgakov's _The Master & Margarita_, Goethe's original Faust, some SF (Joan Vinge? I think?) and one of my papers was on the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil" - complete with original artwork (mine, not the Stones!).

I wanna go back to school *pout*

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

I'd have loved to have seen that paper - The V for Vendetta movie is out next week, I think, and I'm betting they don't use V's introductory lines to the Archbishop: "Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste."