The chorus turns in halves and leaves the stage quietly as stage lights rise on Faustus study.

There, Ralph lounges in Faustus chair, before the great desk whereat the recent indecencies had been staged.

The trash of the debauchery litters the room: Marguerite’s clothing and underwear spilling from the desktop, the clothing of several men who had violated her strewn below, and many toppled bottles, and the glitter of glass which seemed broken everywhere upon the floor.

Robin enters, stepping through it anxiously.

***

The image is a page

of Carl Jung’s Red Book,

which was his private journal of meditation in which

he recorded some of his

most important discoveries

about the nature of the unconscious.

***

The musical excerpt

is a piano study by Philip Glass, composed for the movie, The Hours, depicting the life and

suicide of Virginia Woolf,

who wrote: “I read the book of Job

last night, I don't think God

comes out well in it.”