[USML Announce] Ask Andy

[Brad Jansen]

Yes, I sense a slow and total collapse of both my team and and my soul....it
all goes back to the deal for Mariano Rivera....Mike, where are you now that
I need you...?

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:25 AM, <springkerb at aol.com> wrote:

> Although you have directed your question to Professor Klein, I would like
> to contribute the following snippet, which I hope is of sufficient
> intellectual merit to warrant inclusion in this discussion.  At least to my
> untrained eye, it appears that you may have made yourself a proverbial
> Faustian bargain.  Perhaps the tale below will seem strangely familiar.
>
> Thomas Mann <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Mann>'s 1947 *Doktor
> Faustus: Das Leben des deutschen Tonsetzers Adrian Leverkühn, erzählt von
> einem Freunde* adapts the Faust legend to a 20th-century context,
> documenting the life of fictional composer Adrian Leverkühn as analog and
> embodiment of the early 20th-century history of Germany and of Europe<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe>.
> The talented Leverkühn, after contracting venereal disease<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venereal_disease>from a brothel visit, forms a pact with a Mephistophelean character to grant
> him 24 years of brilliance and success as a composer. He produces works of
> increasing beauty to universal acclaim, even while physical illness begins
> to corrupt his body. In 1930, when presenting his final masterwork (*The
> Lamentation of Dr Faust*), he confesses the pact he had made: madness and
> syphilis <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syphilis> now overcome him, and he
> suffers a slow and total collapse until his death in 1940. Leverkühn's
> spiritual, mental, and physical collapse and degradation are mapped on to
> the period in which Nazism <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism> rose in
> Germany, and Leverkühn's fate is shown as that of the soul of Germany.
>
>
>
>
>   -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad Jansen <bljansen at gmail.com>
> To: USML Announcements <announce at usml.net>
> Sent: Tue, May 31, 2011 9:29 am
> Subject: [USML Announce] Ask Andy
>
>  Dear Professor:
>   I make a deal with Winick and find myself in 7th place.  How did that
> happen?
> Regards,
> Bewildered Brad
>
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