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	Faust
		Faust is the protagonist of a popular tale that has been used as the basis for many different fictional works.
		It concerns the fate of a learned gentleman, Johann Faust, who summons the Devil, who in the tale is usually called Mephistopheles, and offers to sell him his soul if the Devil will serve him for a given period of time.
		Faust is also the German word for fist, although the name "Faust" may be related to Italian "Fausto" rather than the German word.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fa/Faust.html (253 words)

	Fiction Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Faust is still a Renaissance scholar, but Mephistopheles has become a mere voice in Faust’s head, emanating from and representing an entire civilisation that has all knowledge of humanity.
		Faust naturally wants to know what Mephistopheles gets out of the deal: it tells him it wants to use him as its agent of the destruction of humanity, for it is envious of the fact that our civilisation will otherwise outlive it.
		Faust agrees to the bargain, believing that he will be able to control the application of technology to be for the good of humanity.
	www.concatenation.org /frev/jackfaust.html (307 words)

	Faust - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Faust (Latin Faustus) is the protagonist of a popular German tale of a pact with the Devil, assumed to be based on the figure of the German magician and alchemist Dr. Johann Georg Faust (approximately 1480–1540).
		The Faust tale is a variation of the story about a negotiated pact between man and the devil, involving human hubris and diabolic cunning; the oldest extant version is the tale of Theophilus of Adana.
		Jack Faust was the name of a magician in Alan Moore's series Promethea, and is also referred to in other books from the America's Best Comics imprint.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Faust (2626 words)

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		Faust responds that it is reasonable to assume that a person would not use the hot water untempered by cold water or would remove a body part from water that was too hot.
		Moreover, in that case, the issue concerned whether the water heater was preset at too high a temperature whereas here the issue is whether Faust breached his duty to the plaintiff by failing to discover and to warn the plaintiff that the water, at 170 degrees, could injure him instantaneously.
		In balancing the foreseeability and likelihood of injury against the consequences of imposing this burden, we conclude that Faust owed a duty of care to the plaintiff.
	www.state.il.us /COURT/Opinions/AppellateCourt/2000/2ndDistrict/February/WP/2981501.doc (3161 words)

	Jack Faust - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jack Faust(1997) is the third published novel by American author Michael Swanwick.
		The plot is based around a modernization of the [anti-hero] Dr. Johannes Faust who struggles with his growing discomfort with modern thought and questions how and why things happen without scientific explination.
		With Mephistopheles' help, the madman Dr. Johannes Faust becomes savior Jack Faust by accelerating human progress at a blinding speed, reshaping Germany and then all of Europe in his own image.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jack_Faust (139 words)

	Carroll v. Faust, Nos. 2-98-1501 & 2-99-0119, cons.
		Faust filed a motion to strike certain portions of the plaintiff's brief on the basis that the plaintiff's brief and appendix contain references to and copies of unsworn exhibits that the plaintiff is using to support his position on appeal.
		We hold that Faust had a duty to inspect the motel's water heater to determine whether the water temperature was set at a safe level and to either reduce the temperature or to warn its guests, such as plaintiff, that the water temperature was at a level at which instantaneous injury could occur.
		We are of the opinion that the plaintiff's allegation that he was injured by water heated to 170 degrees coming out of a bathtub faucet, given the danger posed by water heated to such a temperature, is sufficient to establish that such an injury would not have occurred in the absence of negligence.
	www.state.il.us /court/Opinions/AppellateCourt/2000/2ndDistrict/February/HTML/2981501.htm (3322 words)

	Excessive Candour -- Jack Faust
		Faust, driven nearly crazed by a somewhat anomalous Enlightenment disdain for traditional forms of knowledge, is burning his books--an act which, in the first century after the invention of printing, is profoundly scandalous; evil, in fact.
		Most of the text is constructed as a Rake's Progress depicting Faust's transformation of the world, and his increasingly baleful misogyny.
		For a while, Jack Faust is a comic Merlin, a humour of frustrated pedantry.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue50/excess.html (768 words)

	The Edge Books Jack Faust
		Four centuries of invention are crammed into the space of a few years and Faust’s era comes to encompass a host of disparate factors: mass media, the plague, the birth-control pill, powerful and repressive religious orders, the aeroplane, dark-age superstition, flash photography, absolute monarchs and the upheavals of advanced capitalism.
		Jack Faust tackles some huge themes: the corruption of idealism by commerce, the problematic nature of the idea of ‘progress’ and the myth of the ethical neutrality of science.
		Jack Faust is an intelligent, disturbing and engaging variation on a theme which seems to be far from exhausted.
	www.theedge.abelgratis.co.uk /booksns/jackfaust.htm (573 words)

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		This version of the Faust tale is closer to Goethe's Faust, but it takes a weird twist by saying that Mephistopheles is not exactly the devil, but another race of beings from a completely different galaxy, speaking as one.
		Meph explains that they will give Faust the knowledge he craves simply because it is their will that the human race should die.
		Faust, however, believes that Mankind can endure any truth and that with the perfection of knowledge they will ascend toward the perfection of spirit.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=5106308&postID=106858296513649004 (402 words)

	Some Fantastic
		As in virtually every other version of the story, Swanwick's Jack Faust is a man who desires to learn all the intricate workings of the universe but feels constrained by the prejudices of those around him.
		Criminals and shady characters inhabit major portions of Jack Faust's world, and at times there is little to distinguish their actions from Jack's-even though he sneers at their actions, he doesn't seem afraid to use criminal methods when he feels he has no other practical options.
		However, despite the radical changes brought about by Jack, the society Margarita inhabits is not prepared for such a woman, and she is all too aware that her hold on power is tenuous at best.
	www.somefantastic.us /NRYSF_Reviews/Faust_Review.html (1065 words)

	Michael Swanwick, Jack Faust
		Faust is the quintessential American genre SF hero, familiar since the 1920s: a messianic scientific genius, a man of relentless optimistic action.
		In Jack Faust’s love for Margarete Reinhardt, a skillfully drawn microcosm of his wider relationship with the world, the effects of these tendencies are seen: to win her, Faust unleashes his first wave of catastrophic technologies; then, when he loses her, his bitterness inspires him to the project of human extinction.
		Faust’s century is our century; we as a species have been making mistakes identical to his; SF should provide us with better role models than Faust (or Lazarus Long, or Hari Seldon, or Gilbert Gosseyn, or Paul Atreides).
	www.geocities.com /Area51/Rampart/2547/skyq.htm (506 words)

	Books: Enter the Hugos (Austin Chronicle . 08-03-98)
		The archetypal Faust, for those of you unfamiliar with Goethe's original tale, is a man who makes a deal with the devil in exchange for his soul.
		In Swanwick's version, Jack Faust is a medieval physicist who knows that the earth revolves around the sun, instead of the other way around.
		Faust, like any neglected genius, agrees, invents all kinds of nifty gadgets, and slowly pushes the world closer and closer to the brink of blowing itself up.
	www.weeklywire.com /ww/08-03-98/austin_books_feature1.html (2015 words)

	Michael Swanwick: Jack Faust - an infinity plus review
		In a powerful and breath-taking piece of extrapolation, the author leads us through Faust's initial struggle to be heard to his vindication in an industrialised society that has been transformed by a few years of scientific and technological revelation.
		Faust delivers a sermon to an increasingly shocked and outraged congregation in which he points out that logic doesn't know should or ought, but only how.
		But then it emerges that Faust was only saying this in order to get into the knickers of his landlord's daughter -- Mephistopheles has told him that this is the surest way to seduce her.
	www.users.zetnet.co.uk /iplus/nonfiction/faust.htm (688 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Jack Faust
		Faust demonstrates his optimism and humanistic vision by accepting the gift with the belief that humans will be able to successfully assimilate and integrate the new knowledge.
		As may be surmised, Faust is disappointed with his fellow man as both the Church and his fellow humanists ignore or deride his proclamations.
		Although he continuously points out that Faust's lover, Gretchen, is a woman and has little legal standing and can't legally own any of the companies she helps set up, Swanwick just as constantly puts her in a highly public position of ownership of those same companies.
	www.sfsite.com /09b/jack17.htm (791 words)

	Excessive Candour
		Jack is self-consciously a man of the soil of New York—which means, in Wilson's hands, that he is an opinionated boor.
		When Jack asks her to stay safe at home (there are no coincidences) she immediately hightails it to the Bad Place in Astoria, where she and the few cells of her foetus are captured by Tara, who wants an unborn child to suckle.
		Jack has not yet worked out how to become legal in order to placate the poshlusty inciter of vigilantes who is about to bear his child, so what there's a War in Heaven like imminent.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue293/excess.html (1310 words)

	DarkEcho Review: Jack Faust by Michael Swanwick
		Enter Mephistopheles, a being from another dimension, who promises Faust the knowledge he longs for, requiring only that Faust must be attentive to his teachings, and that he accept the consequences of his newly gained intellectual wealth.
		Faust's initial attempts to share his scientific advances with his fellow scholars are met with derision and scorn.
		Unlike Dann's protagonist (Leonardo da Vinci), Swanwick's Faust is virtually blind to the mayhem he's created, and becomes the prime mover in humanity's inexorable march to extinction.
	www.darkecho.com /darkecho/reviews/jack_faust.html (411 words)

	Tangled Web UK Review - Jack Faust by Michael Swanwick Mar 98 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In JACK FAUST, Swanwick offers the possibility that Mephistopheles is not the devil, as such, but the personification of an alien intelligence determined to see humanity destroy itself through the gift of premature knowledge.
		The knowledge provided to Faust is essentially scientific, enabling society to leap ahead technologically such that the fifteenth century looks rather more like the nineteenth and twentieth, much to the chagrin of just about everyone.
		The knowledge given to Faust leads not only to social collapse, as pollution and weapons of mass destruction tear the world to pieces, but to personal catastrophe as well, as Faust loses everything he knows and loves.
	www.twbooks.co.uk /reviews/jrussell/jackfaustjr.html (364 words)

	Faust
		Faust's box-office performance was no doubt aided by its international cast which included the German Emil Jannings (the most readily identifiable German star world-wide at the time) as Mephisto and director Wilhelm Dieterle as Valentin, the Swedish Gösta Ekman as Faust, and the French Yvette Guilbert as Marthe (2).
		Mephisto and Faust arrive with an entourage of two elephants and a team of Indian servants, while a celebratory procession of female dancers parades by, watched by the wedding party.
		In Faust, where the central theme is distilled into the struggle of good against evil, Murnau creates a perfect visual metaphor in his use of expressionist lighting and ubiquitous mists, in what really was the last gasp for German Expressionism.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/cteq/03/28/faust.html (1532 words)

	L.A. artist stages Robert Kennedy's Kentucky visit
		Faust, an amiable 55- year-old with silvery hair and a paunch, looks nothing like the man he was to play: the fiery, athletically trim, 43-year-old Robert F. Kennedy of 1968.
		More significantly, Faust was struggling to understand "RFK in EKY," Malpede's attempt to re-create Kennedy's two-day War on Poverty tour of eastern Kentucky in February 1968, just a month before he declared his candidacy for president and four months before he was assassinated.
		As he did, Faust experienced a breakthrough: The issues that people worried about in 1968 -- war, poverty and the environment -- still weigh heavily on people's minds today.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/09/02/DDGUK8HO341.DTL&type=printable (1034 words)

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		John R. "Jack" Faust, Jr., is an experienced business litigation lawyer highly regarded throughout Oregon.
		Jack Faust has served the profession as Vice President of the Oregon State Bar, President of the Multnomah County Bar Association and a frequent lecturer for Continuing Legal Education.
		Jack was named Portland's First Citizen in 1993 and received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Lewis and Clark College in 1998.
	www.schwabe.com /showattorney_print.asp?Show=33 (173 words)

	ROSE ON THE COMMON (2)
		Jack may be crazy, he may be a psychotic murderer who stopped at nothing, but one thing that he wasn’t was stupid.
		Jack had carefully orchestrated this, and Jack’s plans were never half- finished, they were airtight and intricate, serving a greater purpose that nobody knew.
		It hurt Sam when Jack spoke Chloe’s name, all she wanted at this moment was to be able to hold her daughter, to know that she was safe, to know that she could protect her daughter just by being there.
	members.tripod.com /skewed_believers/rosecommon.htm (20136 words)

	Pulprack: Repairman Jack: The Tomb
		Repairman Jack is an excellent updating of the pulp vigilante character.
		He eventually learns that the missing woman, her sister, and Gia's daughter Vicky are doomed by a family curse being carried out by Jack's other client, Kusum Bahkti.
		The events unroll in a pulp-flavored adventure seasoned with horror and fast action as Jack battles a boat-load of un-human monsters that obey Kusum's commands and feed on human flesh.
	www.pulprack.com /arch/2002/10/repairman_jack.html (445 words)

	Debian -- faust
		Faust is a functional programming language specifically designed for realtime audio applications and plugins.
		The syntax of the language is block diagram oriented.
		The faust compiler translate signal processing specifications into optimized C++ code for signal processing applications.
	packages.debian.org /unstable/sound/faust (145 words)

	The Modern Word - Michael Swanwick Interview
		Jack Faust (1997), Swanwick’s greatest novel, reworks the Faust legend with an emphasis on the impact of science and technology on society.
		Gardner and Jack understand writing up and down and I was just a beginner, so it was a terrific learning opportunity for me. “Green Fire,” with Eileen Gunn, Pat Murphy, and Andy Duncan was Eileen’s baby from the start.
		They won’t write about Clifford Simak or Leigh Brackett or Jack Vance because those writers – whose work was extremely important to the field – haven’t been sanctioned by the critical consensus and thus might turn out to be not literary at all.
	www.themodernword.com /features/interview_swanwick.html (3599 words)

	Michael Swanwick Online: Reviews and Analysis - Jack Faust
		In his fifth novel, Jack Faust, Michael Swanwick is in frenetically savage mode.
		Brimstone is to be expected in a retelling of the Faust legend.
		Jack Faust borrows and reworks elements of the Marlowe, Goethe, and Gounod versions of the story, but with a markedly scientific - and science fictional - emphasis.
	www.michaelswanwick.com /revan/faust.html (514 words)

	Sex, Stars and Serpents
		Basically just a prolonged sex scene between Promethea and Jack Faust in which he also teaches her a lot about magick.
		In cinematic terms on Page 8 we see the camera pulling back from Jack Faust to show the whole room and on Page 9 the opposite effect of the camera moving in to Promethea as Jack starts to perform cunnilingus.
		On page 14 behind Promethea and Jack Faust we see the reality of his squalid room but on Page 15 we see the stars behind them.
	www.angelfire.com /comics/eroomnala/10.html (1315 words)

	Do any of you read science fiction?
		Faust was a reputable scientist who got in trouble by getting involved with magic.
		Jack of Shadows has one of my personal favorites, a world with an 'East pole' and a 'West pole'.
		Jack sets out to teach them a thing or two about robbing a thief and the consequences of obsession.
	www.thechristiandefense.com /ftopic2010.html (1223 words)

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