“Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.” [It is a solace of the wretched to have companions in pain.”] —Mephistopheles to Faust from Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus (an interlocking Rubaiyat sonnet) The darkling demon, Mephistopheles, can tell, Whether by instinct, special sight, or smell, Or some weird other means those who’ve been led— Whose souls are nearly lost—consigned…



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