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Comparative Quotations with where they appear in the texts
‘We’re trying to change the world.’
-Skilling, Prologue
‘Till, swoll’n with cunning of a self-conceit.’
-Chorus, Prologue
[Fastow enters, all self-importance.]
-Stage direction, 1:4
‘Both law and physics are for petty wits […] Tis magic, magic that hath ravished me.’
-Faustus, 1:1
‘If your company accounts need filling/He’s available and willing/To see to it you make a killing!/Skilling, Skilling […]’
-Analyst Quartet, 1:5
‘Now, Faustus, thou art conjurer laureate’
-Faustus, 1:3
‘All these ideas are mine!’
-Skilling, 1:9
‘I see there’s virtue in my heavenly words’
-Faustus, 1:3
‘Because they weren’t smart enough to work in the private sector. And that’s the truth. I got head-hunted.’
-Skilling, 2:7
‘To God? He loves thee not. The god thou servest is thine own appetite’
-Faustus, 1:2
‘Our stock is so strong.’
-Skilling, 2:5
‘All things that move between quiet poles shall be at my command.’
-Faustus, 1:1
‘Goddamn.’
-Skilling, 2:7
‘This word ‘damnation’ terrifies not him’
-Faustus, 1:3
‘I created you.’
-Skilling to Fastow, 2:8
‘By him i’ll be great emperor of the world’
-Faustus about Mephistopheles, 1:4
‘It’s a way for us to realise the profits we’re gonna make now.’
-Skilling, 1:1
‘Letting him live in all voluptuousness, Having thee attend on me’
-Faustus’ commands for Lucifer, 1:4
[The gold glints somewhere in the audience.]
-Stage directions, 1:4
‘Heap up gold, and be eternised’
-Faustus, 1:1
‘Money and sex motivate people.’
-Skilling, 1:5
‘I may conjure in some lusty grove and have these joys in full possession’
-Faustus, 1:2
[The Lehman Brothers give Fastow the money.]
-Stage directions, 2:1
‘Come, master doctor, follow us and receive your reward’
-The Duke, 4:2
‘ ‘I have to check the stock price.’ ‘Why?’ ‘Because that’s how Daddy knows how much he is worth.’ ’
-Skilling and Daughter, 2:4
‘So far forth as by art and power of my spirit I am able to perform’
-Faustus, 4:1
‘Who do you think is going to win in the end?! The greedy or the inept?!’
-Skilling, 2:7
‘Christ cannot save thy soul, for he is just. There’s none but I have int’rest in the same’
-Lucifer, 2:3
‘We should be coming up with new ideas […] I got plenty of ideas.’
-Skilling, 1:3
‘I’ll have them fly to India for gold, ransack the ocean for orient pearl’
-Faustus, 1:1
‘I’m offering Jeff the job.’ [As Roe’s dreams are shattered, Skilling’s dreams are made real]
-Stage directions and Lay, 1:3
‘and glutted more with learning's golden gifts, he surfeits upon cursed necromancy; nothing so sweet as magic is to him’
-Chorus, Prologue
‘Ken’s gotta accept it’s my show.’
-Skilling, 2:1
‘Marriage is but a ceremonial toy. If thou lovest me, think no more of it’
-Mephistopheles, 2:1
‘Doesn’t matter how you win, as long as you win.’
-Skilling to Roe, 2:3
‘[Aside] O, what will not I do to obtain his soul?’
-Mephistopheles, 2:1
[Skilling presses the stop button on Fastow’s running machine, hurtling the younger man from his treadmill.]
-Stage Directions, 1:5
[Faustus and Mephistopheles beat the friars, and fling fireworks among them, and so exeunt]
-Stage Directions, 3:2
‘TRIMMING THE FAT’
-Scene Title, 1:5
‘revolt, or i'll piecemeal tear thy flesh’
-Mephistopheles, 5:1
‘I didn’t have to lie. You’re an amateur.’
-Skilling to Roe after she gets fired, 2:3
‘You bring Alexander and his paramour before the Emperor?’
-Knight to Faustus, 4:1
‘Burn, baby, burn!’
-All Traders, 2:6
‘Choke thyself, Glutton!’
-Faustus, 2:3
‘Well that’s your fucking job, ain’t it?’
-Skilling to Fastow, 2:5
‘Away, you villain! What, dost think I am a horse-doctor?’
-Faustus to Horse-Courser, 4:1
‘mark-to-market, much more appropriate, much more transparent’
-Fastow, 1:1
‘Trust in Beelzebub. Now go not backward. No, Faustus, be resolute’
-Faustus, 2:1
‘It’s just box after box after box. Russian dolls, until you get to…’ [The tiny box glows red and throbs.]
-Fastow about LJM, 1:8
‘Would I have a book wherein I might behold all spells and incarnations [...] Now would I have a book where I might see all characters and planets of the heavens [...]’
-Faustus, 2:1
‘The accountants and lawyers are OK with it if you’re OK with it, Ken.’
-Skilling, 1:8
‘Do so, and we will highly gratify thee.’
-Lucifer to Faustus, 2:3
‘We are the good guys in California. We are on the side of the angels.’
-Skilling, 2:6
‘Wherein thou hast given thy soul to Lucifer’
-Mephistopheles to Faustus, 2:1
‘So how ‘bout paying the prices we’re asking?’
-Lay to California Governor, 2:6
‘I cannot sell him so. If thou lik’st him for fifty, take him’
-Faustus to Horse-courser, 4:1
‘But we didn’t do anything illegal in California.’
-Skilling to Lawyer, 2:7
‘Nay, I know not. We shall be cursed with bell, book, and candle.’
-Mephistopheles, 3:2
‘Well, things become a lot easier with the stock options you’ve given us’
-Security Officer to Skilling, 2:7
‘Faustus vows never to look to heaven, never to name God or pray to him, to burn his scriptures, slay his ministers, and make my spirits pull his churches down’
-Faustus, 2:3
‘One of Skilling’s death weekends, man! […] Someone’s gonna fuckin die.’
-Trader 2, 1:4
‘Learn thou of Faustus manly fortitude, and scorn those joys thou never shalt possess’
-Faustus, 1:4
‘Closest thing there is to hunting. Closest thing there is to sex. For a man that is.’
-Trader 1, 1:4
‘I will wound Achilles in the heel and then return to Helen for a kiss’
-Faustus, 5:1
[The hum of manly pursuits […] Skilling is on a running machine […] He’s pushing himself and relishing the physical challenge.]
-Stage Directions, 1:5
‘For, falling to a devilish exercise, and glutted more with learning's golden gifts, he surfits upon cursèd necromancy; nothing so sweet as magic is to him’
-Chorus, Prologue
‘Loopholes so big you could fuck a fat chick through ‘em.’
-Trader 3, 2:6
‘A plague on her for a hot whore!’
-Faustus, 2:1
‘Be a fucking man!’
-Skilling to Fastow, 2:8
‘By him I’ll be great emperor of the world’
-Faustus about Mephistopheles, 1:4
‘He says, ‘Only people prepared to lose are ever gonna win.’ ’
-Trader 4 about Skilling, 1:4
‘When we hear one rack the name of God, [..] we fly in hope to get his glorious soul’
-Mephistopheles, 1:3
‘Risk is life, basically.’
-Fastow, 1:8
‘As resolute am I in this as thou to live’
-Faustus to Valdes, 1:1
[Skilling falls to his knees with the relief.]
-Stage Directions after Republicans elected, 2:5
‘Nor will I henceforth’
-Faustus to Lucifer, 2:3
‘I’ve been thinking of taking Enron into weather.’
-Skilling to Security Officer, 2:7
‘I know you’d fain see the Pope’
-Mephistopheles to Faustus about mocking the Pope, 3:1
‘The guy I know tried to change the world was the one behind the corporate crime that defined the end of the twentieth century.’
-Lawyer, Prologue
‘Nay, then I fear he is fall’n into that damned art for which they two are infamous through the world’
-First Scholar about Faustus, 1:2
‘The bubble’s gonna burst folks.’
-Roe, 1:7
‘Faustus, repent yet, God will pity thee’
-Good Angel, 2:3
‘You got a perception here, a reality here. You just need something to lean on while we bring this up.’
-Fastow, 1:8
‘Hell hath no limits, nor circumscribed in one self place, for where we are is hell, and where hell is must we ever be’
-Mephistopheles, 2:1
‘Things have started getting divorced from the underlying realities.’
-Roe 2:2
‘Marriage is but a ceremonial toy’
-Mephistopheles, 2:1
[Daughter […] has disappeared, leaving only bubbles in her wake.]
-Stage Directions, 2:3
[Enter Mephistopheles disguised as a friar]
-Stage Directions, 1:3
‘This is how it looks...I can’t make real money just appear.’
-Fastow to Skilling, 2:5
‘Move me not, for I will not tell thee’
-Mephistopheles to Faustus about the world's creation, 2:3
‘What if they look and see that underneath there’s nothing actually there -’
-Fastow to Skilling, 2:8
‘Sure these are no spirits, but the true substantial bodies of those two deceased princes’
-Emperor, 4:1
[Claudia Roe, a very attractive blonde woman of forty in a short skirt.]
-Stage Directions, 1:1
‘What are you, Mistress Minx’
-Faustus to Lechery, 2:3
‘Most powerful women?’
-Skilling 1:1
‘Was this the face that launched a thousand ships’
-Faustus about Helen of Troy, 5:1
[Skilling and Row finish having clothed, quick sex.]
-Stage Directions, 1:2
‘Thou shalt be my paramour’
-Faustus, 5:1
[She tosses the Kleenex away […] and confidently strides from the office.]
-Stage Directions, 1:2
‘I will combat weak Menelaus [...] I will wound Achilles in the heel’
-Faustus, 5:1
[His daughter fades into the dark]
-Stage Directions, 1:6
[Devils [..] dance and then depart]
-Stage Directions, 2:1
‘Tits Industries’ […] Skank of America’
-Roe and Skilling about Trader’s names for Roe’s division, 1:7
[a DEVIL dressed like a woman]
-Stage Directions, 2:1
‘Clever girls.’
-Fastow to Raptors, 1:9
‘Thou art fairer that the evening air’
-Faustus to Helen, 5:1
‘I’m gonna go home to my beautiful children.’
-Roe to Skilling, 2:4
‘And then return to Helen for a Kiss’
-Faustus, 5:1
[the most powerful man in the room, Ken Lay]
-Stage Directions, 1:1
‘be a physician faustus, heap up gold, and be eternalized for some wondrous cure’
-Faustus, 1:1
‘Jeffrey ‘mark-to-market’ Skilling.’
-Lay, 1:1
‘Master Doctor Faustus’
-Emperor, 4:1
‘There’s nothing Skilling don’t know.’
-Trader 4, 1:4
‘None in [...] the whole world, can compare with thee’
-Emperor to Faustus, 4:1
‘I’m fucking smart.’
-Skilling, 1:5
‘By art and power of my spirit I am able’
-Faustus, 4:1
[He’s delighted by his power and its effect.]
-Stage Directions about Skilling, 1:5
‘O, this feeds my soul!’
-Faustus about the parade of the sins, 2:3
[The Photographer is beneath him to make him look impressive, god-like]
-Stage Directions, 1:9
‘By him I’ll be great emperor of the world’
-Faustus about Mephistopheles, 1:4
[Reaction is ecstatic, like a religious cult. Skilling is messiah-like]
-Stage Directions, 1:9
‘Whilst I live rest beholding for this courtesy’
-Duchess of Vanholt to Faustus, 4:2
‘We trust you all up here, sir.’
-Security Officer to Skilling, 2:7
‘Thou let me see some proof of thy skill’
-Emperor to Faustus, 4:1
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