RE: Selling your soul.
August 6, 2015 at 7:40 pm
(This post was last modified: August 6, 2015 at 7:41 pm by Cato.)
(August 6, 2015 at 6:34 pm)abaris Wrote: Kind of like Doctor Faustus. That moron didn't broker the right deal. But Goethe managed to paint Mephistopheles as an interesting and kind of likeable character.
Reminds me of one of my all-time favorite lyrics. In the Police song Wrapped Around Your Finger Sting writes:
Mephistopheles is not your name
But I know what you're up to just the same
I was 13 when the song was released. No fucking internet made information gathering a bit of a chore so it took a bit of effort to track down the Faust. Not that bad actually. I remember hearing the lyric as Mephistophanes and assumed a Greek origin, not German. We were fortunate to grow up with an encyclopedia at home so I went to look it up and ran into Mephistopheles on the way to Mephistophanes. So sure was I that I distinctly remember looking to make sure there wasn't also a Mephistophanes. Anyway, I then went to the library which led me to Goethe.
This bit of knowledge came in handy when I first encountered the tale in American blues legend through the movie Crossroads. I'm actually very fond of the blues version of the tale including all the actual shenanigans pinned on the legend, including Robert Johnson's demise.
Personally, I would love to find the crossroads. Getting paid for my ultimate demise seems dishonest in a way, but fuck it; integrity is probably superfluous when dealing with the Devil.
