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A truly great story. A modern fable. It was made into a Twilight Zone or an Outer Limits I think. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.179.22.132 ( talk) 05:07, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
I'd bet this is based, at least in title, on the poem "The Hell Bound Train" but without a source and terrible laziness, perhaps someone else will clarify it. —Preceding
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This is a version of the Faust story as dramatized by Goethe. The magic watch that can stop time is the counterpart of the "Moment, remain, thou art so fair" spell in Goethe's drama, which will cause Faust to lose his soul of he uses it. 71.59.43.26 ( talk) 03:15, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
@ User:TonyTheTiger. I notice that, back in April 2013, you placed Faust navboxes on a lot of articles, including this one. Speaking specifically of this article, that navbox doesn't belong here. For one thing, nothing in the article mentions the Faustian story. And even if a reliable critical source did make the connection between Faust and the instant story, the better approach would be to quote that source in the article and blue-link the word "Faust" (thus allowing the interested reader to click through to learn more). There is no question that Bloch's story is a pact-with-the-devil story but, as things stand right now, it is nothing more than unsourced opinion that links the instant story to Faust. I intend to delete the navbox and to modify the lead paragraph to state that this is a pact-with-the-devil story (and blue link that adjective to the article on Deal with the devil). But before I do that, I'm interested in hearing your thoughts on the matter. NewYorkActuary ( talk) 22:26, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
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A truly great story. A modern fable. It was made into a Twilight Zone or an Outer Limits I think. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.179.22.132 ( talk) 05:07, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
I'd bet this is based, at least in title, on the poem "The Hell Bound Train" but without a source and terrible laziness, perhaps someone else will clarify it. —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
75.177.47.137 (
talk)
03:04, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
This is a version of the Faust story as dramatized by Goethe. The magic watch that can stop time is the counterpart of the "Moment, remain, thou art so fair" spell in Goethe's drama, which will cause Faust to lose his soul of he uses it. 71.59.43.26 ( talk) 03:15, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
@ User:TonyTheTiger. I notice that, back in April 2013, you placed Faust navboxes on a lot of articles, including this one. Speaking specifically of this article, that navbox doesn't belong here. For one thing, nothing in the article mentions the Faustian story. And even if a reliable critical source did make the connection between Faust and the instant story, the better approach would be to quote that source in the article and blue-link the word "Faust" (thus allowing the interested reader to click through to learn more). There is no question that Bloch's story is a pact-with-the-devil story but, as things stand right now, it is nothing more than unsourced opinion that links the instant story to Faust. I intend to delete the navbox and to modify the lead paragraph to state that this is a pact-with-the-devil story (and blue link that adjective to the article on Deal with the devil). But before I do that, I'm interested in hearing your thoughts on the matter. NewYorkActuary ( talk) 22:26, 4 October 2015 (UTC)