When the rejuvenated scholar Faust has slept with Helen of Troy, via the black magic arts of Mephistopheles, the vision fades and he finds himself on a high rugged peak. He marvels at the spectacle of sun-irradiated clouds, and imagines a luscious female form on softest bedding: “I see it! It is like Juno, Leda, […]
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Goethe’s character Faust is a potent symbol of Everyman in our modern hi-tech wonderland. If we have the money, we can have almost anything we desire delivered to our door the next day. Does that make us happy? Does that make us good? Does that make our world safe? This may be the most eccentric
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