Thomas C.Foster

Bargains with the devil go back a long way in Western culture.

Hansberry’s version, when Mr. Lindner makes his offer, he doesn’t demand Walter Lee’s soul; in fact, he doesn’t even know that he’s demanding it. He is, though.

Homer gives us four great struggles of the human being: with nature, with the divine, with other humans, and with ourselves

For now, though, one does well to remember, as one starts reading a poem or story, to check the weather.

And here’s the thing he discovers: being born is painful. And that goes whether you’re born or reborn