Cinematically, rising from the reflection of sky in the glassy stare of one who lay dead at the Battle of the Damned, to the panorama of its horrific extent of savage death, and thence to the air, to wheel and to fly rapidly away into majestic clouds.

Then returned to Württemberg we make a slow descent with our cinematic eye; scenes of anarchy contend with peaceful normalcy (here a peasant’s farming, there a crowd is lynching some vagrant, etc.); city life is resuming like a dawn: Faustus is at home again

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The image is

Faustus giving his lessons,

a still from the F.W. Murnau silent film, Faust.

Music excerpts are:

“Baïlèro” from

Chants d'Auvergne,

sung by by Te Kanawa Kiri; and

Scarlatti’s “Piuttosto Presto Che

Allegro (C Major)”,

rendered by Bob James.