http://jseliger.com/2008/06/01/doctor-faustus/ Fri, 25 May 2012 08:41:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://jseliger.com/2008/06/01/doctor-faustus/#comment-468 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:20:02 +0000 http://jseliger.wordpress.com/?p=263#comment-468 Interesting. I haven’t read Faustus, but I did read The Magic Mountain, and liked it a lot – at the time. But Henry Miller makes the point somewhere that he also loved it when he first read it, but then, when he tried to read it again years later, couldn’t imagine how he had ever got through it the first time. I think it’s also worth noting that if, as I did, you studied German, the sentence you cite would seem unexceptional. That’s German for you (but not Austrian). Must disagree about Ethan Frome, which I think is blackly humorous: Guy with shrewish wife falls in love with young chick and, after she is injured along with him, ends up in effect having two shrewish wives. But, I may just be a sick puppy.

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