Chapter 20

"Not this time, thank you," Mephistopheles replied. "I really have a case now." "It might be better to show it to me," suggested the archangel. "It would be a pity to fly so far for nothing, and you had such a disappointment over Job." "Oh, that was different." "And then there was Faust; the verdict there was ultimately against you, if I remember rightly." "Oh, that was so different again. No, I am certain this time. I can prove the futility of genius. Great men think that they are understood, and are not; men thin…