Faust

[atreestump]

 @"Ontical" 
Well i tried to down load the the docs but can't, sounds interesting thowe.

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What device are you on?

The links take you to a PDF on the site, which should have a download option as PDFs usually do when you visit them in a browser.

[DAWN]

@"Ontical"   Im on my labtop using Opera, when i click on the files a page dose open but it's blank.

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[Socrates]

Try these links:

http://www.iowagrandmaster.org/Books%20in%20pdf/Faust.pdf
https://mthoyibi.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/doctor-faustus_christopher-marlowe.pdf

[atreestump]

The opening part of the Goethe one describes Goethe about to write down the poem, it describes his own experience of grasping the forms that haunt him which he tries to put down on paper. This is a strange literary device, as we are not actually reading the poem, we are back stage as it were. I think the next part is Goethe talking to some people backstage of the performance (which never happened for Goethe, he died before the play was performed).

Goethe spent his entire life writing this poem.


Again you show yourselves, you wavering Forms,
Revealed, as you once were, to clouded vision.
Shall I attempt to hold you fast once more?
Heart’s willing still to suffer that illusion?

[Socrates]

@"thetrizzard" What do you make of this? An author placing himself inside the text, before the text 'begins' and Goethe most definitely is dead by the time others read it.