Hints and tips:
...Faust responds by pouring a pint of beer over his head. The audience hoots with laughter....
...They flash a thumbs up, not a V sign....
...Note, too, that Goethe’s Faust Part II brilliantly describes the perils of inflation....
...It would be like the moment when Faust asks Mephistopheles for a wife....
...But he was also “a 20th-century Faust” – one of the models for Stanley Kubrick’s mad scientist Dr Strangelove – whose passion for rocketry had been funded by “stoking the fires of hell”....
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