God Is, Lucifer is a devil, and there is a Hell.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

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... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

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(Marlowe's) Faustus stubbornly reverts to his atheistic beliefs and continues his elementary pagan re-education ~ the inferno to him is a 'place' invented by men.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

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Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land managing a plough with plodding oxen having once tasted the weightless bliss of flight?

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

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A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work.

~ Bill Bryson

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