/lit/ - Literature

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>>19305334
stop reading faust 2

>In this second part, the devil not only loses all the terrors which he carried with him through the first, not only that mysterious horror which he awakened disappears, - but there is scarcely a trace remaining of the intellectual preeminence, the mastery of a thousand years' experience, of that diabolical craft which flatters the highest capacities most, of the mental grace of the original father of lies. He has now merely the prudence of old age; he is talkative, and feels, as it were, his own tediousness, since he is no longer terrible, no longer necessary since he is now only an accompaniment, and tries to gain attention only by marginal notes and Tame Xenia, which are far, far below what he uttered in the first part, at the height of his power, each word a flash of hell. In short, Mephistopheles was formerly the active evil principle; now he is nothing but the modern mockery of the hoofed, horned, and tailed fancy picture of the middle ages.

>anglocise every foreign name ruthlessly even when I know better and laugh at anyone who corrects me

>roommate bitches to my landlord about my girlfriend's dog being over
>he moves out
>ordered drugs from the darknet to my house using his name
>the FBI had been operating the site during that time