Johanna Faust, a mixed race Jew, prefers to publish pseudonymously. She is committed: first, to preventing war, ecological disaster, and nuclear apocalypse; last to not only fighting for personal privacy & the freedom of information, but, by representing herself as a soldier in that fight, to exhorting others to do the same. She is a poet, always. All these efforts find representation here: "ah, Mephistophelis" is so named after the last line of Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, whose heretical success flouted the censor for a time.

And then it hit me, Gentle Reader.  That is to say, a dear friend, telephoned me and brought it to my attention, and I comprehended it and saw that the likeness was most remarkeable.

Mitt Romney is Bruce Campbell.

A quick search shows that I, or rather my friend (h/t Einzige) was not the first to whom the epiphany of this verisimilitude : 





Be seeing you. 

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