Sometimes 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-sto

Sometimes 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...