The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

[ishtarv]

This last week for my sister's birthday I was down in Ashland and got to see The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus written by Christopher Marlowe back in the 16th century. The story of Faustus is the tale of a man who offers his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for the servitude of Mephistopheles for four and twenty years. I assumed that Marlowe

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[ruth_the_sleuth]

"However it's not enough to save Marlowe's Faustus from receiving Josh's nerd rating 'The offspring of a star wars fanatic and an unwashed trekkie'. I shiver to think what this play would be like modernized. Faustus makes a dragon powered linear accelerator and chooses to sleep with Diana Troy instead of the pure hearted band dork. "

Why aren't you writing for the New Yorker by now? You could do the Annals of Nerdery.

[robotcolonygod]

[ishtarv]

I have nothing but respect for this! :-D
-Josh

[coquetteling]

Josh, you wrote an "essay" in your free time. For fun. *snicker* I have nothing else to say.... he he he

[ishtarv]

*Josh cries, goes to the doctor and discovers he has the some-day-terminal-disease "Overly Existentially Serious Alumnus infirmity"*
-Josh