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on 7 December 2013 (#67702324)
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The Life and Times of Mephistopheles
What is in a name? That which we call a demon by any other name, would by most accounts still be a creature of ill-begotten vices and damnable persuasion, or so I find the case to be with me. Of course in the beginning, as most things in this world are apt to be, I was little known, often my many mischiefs and misdeeds were, and still at times are, blamed on another, thanks in part ever so much to Jacobus de Teramos, who penned a lovely little diatribe Buche de Belial. Of course to be compared to the incomparable King of Evil, Prince of Darkness, Angel of Hostility, Angel of Lawlessness, and True Ruler of the Earthly World, is quite a feat, and I am very well accomplished, and quite a separate entity from that wicked and perverse Lord Belial, though we do have similar pursuits in the world.
Of course, merely to clarify, I was in fact the very tempter of Doctor Johann von Faustus, and later, to ensure that my discourse in the handling of the matter of temptation and soul purchasing be made known, I of course struck a similar bargain with the very scribe who has since immortalized my tale.
Alas, how my tale continues still. Might I bend your ear with clever forked tongue and questionable damnation?
Mephistopheles Manifesto Canto I: The Bargaining
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