"...I'd heard of what happened when Kit Marlowe showed up in [Francois Villon's] presence - one of Taverner's few mistakes, letting two alley tom-cats into the same room -" (pp. 111-112)
In another fictional inn, the White Horse, Shakespeare praises Marlowe's Doctor Faustus whereas Marlowe denigrates Shakespeare's first play. The same author informs us that the Library of Dreams contains Marlowe's dreamed but unwritten The Merrie Comedie of The Redemption of Doctor Faustus.
This author is, of course, Neil Gaiman. Anderson and Gaiman continue to parallel each other as we, editorially speaking, continue to reread both.
I have yet to reread my way to the end of "Losers' Night."
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Kaor, Paul!
Alas, I only read the first part of a translation of Goethe's German version of the Faust legend, the second part not being included. A pity, the first part was interesting.
We briefly see Goethe in Anderson's "Wolfram."
Ad astra! Sean
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