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...weary of the same old tricks?" Renata does. Having flogged herself with a whip, she enters a nunnery to repent by singing again on her stomach. The saga ends with the nuns staging an orgy with imaginary demons and Renata condemned to burn at the stake for raising the devil...
...Goethe, lies in man's capacity to reconcile these opposites in creative activity. For creation, for a true birth, the feminine vessel is necessary as well as the masculine spark; but the problem of woman involves the problem of evil; and so Faust sells his soul to the Devil in return for the love of the loveliest woman alive. Seduced by the Devil, he seduces Gretchen, gets her with child, abandons her to a disgraceful death. At the end of Part One, Faust is doomed...
THOMAS, by Shelley Mydans. A full-dress novel about Thomas Becket emphasizes pomp and pageantry, but also characterizes Becket as serving God as much as King Henry II serves the Devil...
THOMAS, by Shelley Mydans. A full-dress novel about Thomas Becket emphasizes pomp and pageantry, but also characterizes Becket as serving God as much as King Henry II serves the devil...
...their foreign beat, he wrote, the crusaders seemed "more eager to put on an act than to right wrongs. Or perhaps they had fallen into mere hostility for its own sake. It seemed to me that some reporters out from the States were happiest when they had a devil to chase−when they could see a story in terms of someone's malfeasance...