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Madoka is heavily inspired by Goethe's Faust [0]! Walpurgisnacht is a (rather irrelevant) scene in the latter, iirc one episode had random quotes on the wall, a
by chaoskanzlerin 2y ago
Madoka is heavily inspired by Goethe's Faust [0]! Walpurgisnacht is a (rather irrelevant) scene in the latter, iirc one episode had random quotes on the wall, and the thematic similarities are very hard to not notice.
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goethe%27s_Faust https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goethe%27s_Faust
- aebtebeten 2y agoSometimes you don't even get to make the deal with the devil, you make the deal to get rid of the devil: https://americanliterature.com/author/o-henry/short-story/the-ransom-of-red-chief https://americanliterature.com/author/o-henry/short-story/th... I like the idea of mashing up Nietzsche's Abyss with Moore's Rorschach: "None of you abysses understand. I'm not stuck here gazing into you. You're stuck here gazing into me." Lagniappe: Radio Yerevan was asked: "Is it true that the Capitalists are standing on the edge of an abyss?" Radio Yerevan answers: "Yes, true. And our goal: to catch up and go beyond them!" PS. If there were a bounty, my entry would be not DE:Boba Nacht, but rather FR:Boba Fête...