Faustian Bargains

Lately it occurred to me what makes a bargain uniquely Faustian is not that Faust sold his soul, but that he got a decent offer on it.

Off today to one of the loopier police states in this world. With due acknowledgement of the human misery involved, there would be something thin and poor about a world if it were all Belgium, with a tinsel-thin layer of local color.