James Dempsey’s Reviews > Faust, First Part > Status Update

15 pages to go. All coming to a jittering climax, Gretchen growing wary, brother Valentine dead; Mephistopheles cool as per.

Living, laughing and loving my way through Goethes Magnum Opus, and vicariously through our antagonist Mephistopheles! I am heeling over this fine rendition, though the page numbers don’t seem to match my update track. I will plant the very many quotes of worth in my mind, and water each of them with shaky recitation in the hope that they grow oak like and forever, through my life until the end; da capo al fine.

Prologue great. Faust and Wagner giving out about life and dogs. Two souls in man, one bound to ideas the other the natural world - landscapes and rivers and watered shrubbery and so forth. Yet to meet Gretchen.

I am really putting off this off