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primal forces buried in our subconscious - Carol Pritchard
Raptors and the seven deadly sins
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"For apish deeds transformed to an ape" "by thou transformed to a dog"
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If you have a moment of genius that will be rewarded now
Fill the public schools with silk where all students will be bravely clad
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He ends, his arms outstretched, crucifying himself before the market
Consummatum est
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No! please come on. I'm happy, I'm... excited
erratic
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There's greed, there's fear, joy, faith, hope... And the greatest of these... is money
King James Version And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
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And who actually is the most beautiful woman in the room.... is irrevelant.
Post capitalism
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Every dip, every crash, every bubble that's burst, that's you
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Primal
Macho culture
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The stock price throbs, but never alters much, gradually increasing edging up in comforting rhythmic pulses
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Uses the form of a greed tragedy - Carol pritchard
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I am Enron
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You have been a great cheerleader for us
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Stock analyst
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Individualism
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So he will spare him four and twenty years, Letting him live in all voluptuousness
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Three suited individuals enter, finding their way with white sticks
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Lawyer (To us) ... But I don't have the time and you don't have the money
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Faustus was not in fact acting to fulfil his own selfish desires but as a martyr to collect knowledge for all of us- Hazlitt
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Faustus is "A personification of the pride of will and eagerness of curiosity" Hazlitt
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"There is something of the Everyman in Faustus. The story of Adam, for instance insists on Adam's culpability... he ought to have been created of better stuff" Sylvan Barnet
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Religious structure of capitalism - Walter Benjamin
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Reaction is ecstatic like a religious cult. Skilling is messiah-like
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A huge party: absurd, luxurious, delusional
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These metaphysics and magicians, And necromanric books are heavenly!
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A sound magician is a demi god
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Castle in the air
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They are but shadows
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The transformation of Enron. From discreet, regular offices... it should feel like a physical liberation"
economic bubble
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The chaos, the physicality, the aggression and shouting of a trading floor
macho culture
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Bakhtin - Carnivalesque
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Various employees approach Skilling with contracts for him to approve and sign. He smoothly signs though barely looks at them, treating them as autographs
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Fastow's Lair
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Like in Jurassic park
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I want to give Enron a mistress
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Shadow company
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Arthur Anderson appears to one side. He has a ventriloquists dummy "little Arthur"
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Clever girls
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The really smart person would "try and choose the woman that most other people would think was most other people's idea of the most beautiful woman" "and who actually is the most beautiful woman is irrelevant"
The smartest guys in the room
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Ricochet! Fat boy! Burn Out! Death star!
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let's r this mf - traders
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I got a daughter and I'd like her to go to college, do something real - security guard
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You get on a plane, you don't understand how exactly it works, but you believe it'll fly...imagine that the belief that the plane could fly was all that kept it in the air- Sheryl Sloman
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Your brilliant stupidity. This one gave us the railroads. This one the internet. This one the slave trade
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Till, swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did not mount above his reach, And melting heavens conspired his overthrow.
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And glutted more with learning's golden gifts, He surfeits upon cursed necromancy.
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Faustus lay that damned book aside, And gaze not on it, lest it tempt thy soul, And heap God's heavy wrath upon thy head
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The reward of sin is death. That's hard.
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Go forward Faustus in that famous art
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I'll have them fly to India for gold, Ransack the ocean for orient pearl, And search all corners of the new-world For pleasant fruits and princely delicates
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And chase the prince of Parma from our land And reign sole king of all our provinces
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Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it
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Philosophy is odious and obscure, Both law and physic are for petty wits; Divinity is basest of the same three, Unpleasant, harsh, contemptible, and vile. 'Tis magic, magic that hath ravished me.
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To glut the longing of my heart's desire: That I might have unto my paramour That heavenly Helen which I saw of late
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Ugly hell gape not! Come not, Lucifer! I'll burn my books- ah, Mephostophilis!
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Regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things
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Ah my God- I would weep, but the devil draws in my tears!
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For this saint peters heir/ From Bruno's back ascends Saint Peter's chair
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Banquet
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With his rich triple crown to be reserv'd /And put into the church's treasury
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Let me have a wife. The fairest maiden in/ Germany, for I am wanton and lascivious
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Hot whore
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Thou art a spirit Faustus; God cannot pity thee
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Faustus, repent: yet god will pity thee
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Accursed Faustus, miserable man, That from thy soul exclud'st the grace of Heaven
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Enter the seven deadly sins (led by a Piper)
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Chris Megson sees that the spectacle is "an entirely fitting representation of a post-capitalist system that is about style over content"
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"This is capitalism exposed as con-trick"
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"ethereal voices" "otherworldly voices of the Enron commercial"
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Ha ha ha! Faustus hath his leg again, and the horse-courser a bundle of hay for his forty dollars
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
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"For apish deeds transformed to an ape" "by thou transformed to a dog"
Card 3
Front
Fill the public schools with silk where all students will be bravely clad
Back
Card 4
Front
Consummatum est
Back
Card 5
Front
erratic
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