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My super secret conspiracy? I'm the Devil in the flesh mmmkay... my name is Death. #intothegrave #death #churchofsatan #magnafrisia #mastodon #faust #faustus #mephistopheles

Readit Club Jun 6

Today is Thomas Mann’s #birthday.

His novel Doctor Faustus feels strikingly modern: it is not just a novel about the past. It is a warning.

Mann shows how a gifted person — and even an entire country — can be seduced by evil and lose their soul.

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WIST Quotations Apr 29

A quotation from Christopher Marlowe

CHORUS: Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,
   And burnèd is Apollo’s laurel bough,
   That sometime grew within this learnèd man.
   Faustus is gone. Regard his hellish fall,
   Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise
   Only to wonder at unlawful things,
   Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits,
   To practise more than heavenly power permits.

Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Epilogue (1594; 1604 “A” text)

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Marlowe, Christopher - The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Epilogue (1594; 1604 "A" text) | WIST Quotations

CHORUS: Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burnèd is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learnèd man. Faustus is gone. Regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward…

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WIST Quotations Apr 22

A quotation from Christopher Marlowe

GOOD ANGEL: And now, poor soul, must thy good angel leave thee,
The jaws of hell are open to receive thee. (Exit)

Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 5, sc. 2 (sc. 19), l. 2015ff (1594; 1616 “B” text)

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Marlowe, Christopher - The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 5, sc. 2 (sc. 19), l. 2015ff (1594; 1616 "B" text) | WIST Quotations

GOOD ANGEL: And now, poor soul, must thy good angel leave thee, The jaws of hell are open to receive thee. (Exit) This dialog only appears in the "B" text.

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WIST Quotations Apr 15

A quotation from Christopher Marlowe

FAUSTUS: No, Faustus, curse thyself, curse Lucifer,
   That hath deprived thee of the joys of heaven.
      (The clock striketh twelve.)
   O, it strikes, it strikes! Now, body, turn to air,
   Or Lucifer will bear thee quick to hell.
      (Thunder and lightning.)
   O soul, be changed into little water drops,
   And fall into the ocean, ne’er be found!
   My God, my God, look not so fierce on me!
      (Enter Devils.)
   Adders, and serpents, let me breathe a while!
   Ugly hell, gape not. Come not Lucifer!
   I’ll burn my books! Ah, Mephistophilis!
      (Exeunt Devils with Faustus.)

Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 5, sc. 2 (sc. 19), l. 1498ff (1594; 1604 “A” text)

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Marlowe, Christopher - The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 5, sc. 2 (sc. 19), l. 1498ff (1594; 1604 "A" text) | WIST Quotations

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WIST Quotations Apr 2

A quotation from Christopher Marlowe

   FAUSTUS: Lucifer and Mephistophilis. Ah, gentlemen! I gave them my soul for my cunning!
   ALL: God forbid!
   FAUSTUS: God forbade it, indeed; but Faustus hath done it.

Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 5, sc. 2 (sc. 14), l. 32ff (1594; 1604 “A” text)

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Marlowe, Christopher - The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 5, sc. 2 (sc. 14), l. 32ff (1594; 1604 "A" text) | WIST Quotations

FAUSTUS: Lucifer and Mephistophilis. Ah, gentlemen! I gave them my soul for my cunning! ALL: God forbid! FAUSTUS: God forbade it, indeed; but Faustus hath done it. In the expanded "B" text (1594; 1616), the lines (5.2/19; l. 60ff) are similar. FAUSTUS: Why, Lucifer and Mephistophiles. O gentlemen, I gave…

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WIST Quotations Mar 11

A quotation from Kit Marlowe

BAD ANGEL: He that loves pleasure, must for pleasure fall.

Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 5, sc. 4 (sc. 19), l. 2032 (5.4.2032) (1594; 1616 “B” text)

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Marlowe, Christopher - The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 5, sc. 4 (sc. 19), l. 2032 (5.4.2032) (1594; 1616 "B" text) | WIST Quotations

BAD ANGEL: He that loves pleasure, must for pleasure fall. This scene with the Bad Angel was added in the "B" text.

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WIST Quotations Feb 26

A quotation from Christopher Marlowe

FAUSTUS: Was this the face that launch’d a thousand ships,
   And burnt the topless towers of Ilium —
   Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. —
      [They kiss]
   Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies! —
   Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again.
      [They kiss again]
   Here will I dwell, for heaven is in these lips,
   And all is dross that is not Helena.

Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 5, sc. 1 (sc. 13), l. 1358ff (1594; 1604 “A” text)

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Marlowe, Christopher - The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 5, sc. 1 (sc. 13), l. 1358ff (1594; 1604 "A" text) | WIST Quotations

FAUSTUS: Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium — Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. — [They kiss] Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies! — Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. [They kiss…

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WIST Quotations Feb 6

A quotation from Christopher Marlowe

FAUSTUS: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me,
What good will my soul do thy lord?
MEPHISTOPHILES: Enlarge his kingdom.
FAUSTUS: Is that the reason he tempts us thus?
MEPHISTOPHILES: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.
[Misery loves company.]

Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 2, sc. 1 (sc. 5), l. 477ff (1594; 1604 “A” text)

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Marlowe, Christopher - The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 2, sc. 1 (sc. 5), l. 477ff (1594; 1604 "A" text) | WIST Quotations

FAUSTUS: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, What good will my soul do thy lord? MEPHISTOPHILES: Enlarge his kingdom. FAUSTUS: Is that the reason he tempts us thus? MEPHISTOPHILES: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris. [Misery loves company.] Variants of the Latin translation: It is a comfort to the wretched to have…

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WIST Quotations Jan 22

A quotation from Christopher Marlowe

FAUSTUS: Where are you damn’d?
MEPHISTOPHILIS: In hell.
FAUSTUS: How comes it, then, that thou art out of hell?
MEPHISTOPHILIS: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it
   Think’st thou that I, who saw the face of God,
   And tasted the eternal joys of heaven,
   Am not tormented with ten thousand hells,
   In being depriv’d of everlasting bliss?

Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 1, sc. 3 (sc. 3), l. 317ff (1594; 1604 “A” text)

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Marlowe, Christopher - The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 1, sc. 3 (sc. 3), l. 317ff (1594; 1604 "A" text) | WIST Quotations

FAUSTUS: Where are you damn’d? MEPHISTOPHILIS: In hell. FAUSTUS: How comes it, then, that thou art out of hell? MEPHISTOPHILIS: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented…

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