Mephistopheles Probably Wished He Was More Like Sisyphus or Whatever, You Know What I’m Sayin’? (Part 2)
“Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.” - Jonathan Letham, via Ned Rorem. It seems only a natural progression and appropriate response to the Postmodern condition of creativity, to briefly touch upon the various manifestations and re-contexualisations of Mephistopheles, and to gaze into the horizon of creative linearity in...
Mephistopheles Recurring. (Part 1)
“Ah, he serves you well, indeed! He scorns earth’s fare and drinks celestial mead. Poor fool, his fervent drives him far! He half knows his own madness, I’ll be bound. He’d pillage heaven for its brightest star, And earth for every last delight that’s to be found; Not all that’s near nor far...
