For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust.
The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and breathing Lady Murasaki...
Oh, happy he who still hopes he can emerge from Error's boundless sea! - Faust.
Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.
Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.