#i think it's key to all faust variants that his fate never quite feels fair

[shredsandpatches]

This is a really good article (I have mentioned it a few times before) but also, the final sentence of this abstract simultaneously gives me feelings AND makes me giggle at the author for giving the impression that he was definitely thinking of Doctor Who when he wrote it. Look, I know what that kind of person is like.

(it's me, hi, I'm that kind of person, it's me)

#doctor faustus #hot faust summer #i mean i think faustus is basically schrödinger's soul #not in the sense that he is the soul of the physicist erwin schrödinger of course ykwim #but in the sense that he exists in a superposed state of salvation and damnation #but i do like this article's conclusion that maybe a theology of predestination is more damaging than salvific #like my read on the theology of DF is basically: #okay let's say some people just don't get god's grace for whatever reason #let's say everything we've been taught about the universe and how it works is true #that would actually really fucking suck wouldn't it? #as i say all the time #i think it's key to all faust variants that his fate never quite feels fair #(i think a lot of later adaptations don't incorporate this concept fully) #this is true in both the marlowe vein and the goethe vein #ANYWAY i mostly wanted to giggle about the 'lonely doctor' thing