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I was struck at a late age
by Christopher Marlowe,

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in particular his Faust.

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I thought, all this needs
is a woman's point of view,

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and a third world, and a bit
of Christopher Marlowe himself.

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And so I made him into
a gay noir character.

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Well, you can always improve
on these classics, right?

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Anyway, I'll read you
just the prologue.

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It goes on, like Faust does.

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It was really quite fun.

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I don't know if you'll get
the fun part in the prologue,

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but hey.

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"Born again in the bosom of our
Lord in a tent in Tennessee.

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And not for the first time,
Faust dazed in Asia Minor sated

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in a Benedictine Abbey,
bodiless inside a dead volcano,

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flipped out on the slick
black infinity of a speedway,

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not to mention speed.

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She speaks -- she seeks
experience, not knowledge,

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not the on/off of a machine
with chips for innards,

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nor the drub geniuses' recital
for the game show now fallen

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out of favor.

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She wants to be the
whole race, the jockey,

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and the bettor, the horse too.

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In Bali, she witnessed four
boys in a trance canter

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like Percheron.

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But Faust at 38, is tired,
ensconced on a beach.

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Its harbor filled with
freighters packed with sonar

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beepers and armored vehicles.

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The medieval setup of
the known world, not

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the third on which she
sits sans innocence.

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She's known death's
the reward for both sin

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and virtue, since her grad
school years as a magician's

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assistant.

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The woman in sequins,
who tries to distract you

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from whatever end
is being conjured,

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yet you yearn for her.

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Now she turns armored vehicles
to scrap and back for money.

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The beaten plowshare
and the rest,

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just another transaction
over the phone, fax.

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What's left is her.

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And what happens,
which is why she's

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here and not in some
plastic known world office,

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it's all that other, how, like
a goat sniffing a cartoon can,

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she's greedy for it."

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