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A quotation from Christopher Marlowe
CHORUS: Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,
And burnèd is Apollo’s laurel bough,
That sometime grew within this learnèd man.
Faustus is gone. Regard his hellish fall,
Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise
Only to wonder at unlawful things,
Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits,
To practise more than heavenly power permits.Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Epilogue (1594; 1604 “A” text)More about this quote: wist.info/marlowe-christopher/…
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A quotation from Christopher Marlowe
GOOD ANGEL: And now, poor soul, must thy good angel leave thee,
The jaws of hell are open to receive thee. (Exit)Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 5, sc. 2 (sc. 19), l. 2015ff (1594; 1616 “B” text)More about this quote: wist.info/marlowe-christopher/…
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The Magic Mountain and Doctor Faustus are the two books that I will take with me when I'm allowed just one book on my desert island!
And the passage where organist Wendell Kretschmar gives a public lecture (to a tiny audience) on "Why did Beethooven not write a third movement to the Piano Sonata opus 111?" is the funniest and at the same time most moving piece of writing on music ever --- Th Mann the master comedian and master assimilator.