As Oscar is doing the rounds....
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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....
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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Date: 2005-11-01 03:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-11-01 04:14 pm (UTC)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*
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