The previous post, and Wallace Stevens, suggest a search
in this journal for “The Trials of Device.” That search yields,
among other images, the following —
The Mephisto Waltz author, Fred Mustard Stewart, reportedly died
on February 7, 2007. A check of that date in this journal yields . . .
This is not John Belushi, whose cover of
Frankie Laine’s “Rawhide” was memorable,
but Laine himself.
Some Frankie Laine lyrics quoted here on Stewart’s death date:
“Times when I know you’ll be lonesome,
times when I know you’ll be sad
Don’t let temptation surround you,
don’t let the blues make you bad”
— “We’ll Be Together Again,”
Frankie Laine,
March 30, 1913 —
February 6, 2007
Mephisto fans may prefer Sting’s version of the phrase
“we’ll be together.” See Complex Reflection, April 20, 2012.