The 'Royal' Treatment

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My latest poem explains what happens when Faust makes a deal with Mephisto [Mephistopheles, a la the Devil], and ends up getting a lot more than he bargained for. This version is about scientists playing God, which is pretty much a dead giveaway that there’s no happy ending.

[Note: "New Crown" refers to "New Crown Pneumonia [NCP/NCIP in Mandarin]," the Chinese name for COVID-19]

If you’ve not kept up with your Greek mythology & culture studies, I’ve included a few explanatory footnotes.

Footnotes:

[1] Faust & Mephistopheles - from a mediaeval morality play codified by Goethe. Faust sells his soul to the devil [Meph], starting an unbroken string of satanic success that, legend has it, has only been broken by a fiddler in Georgia:

[2] Sophocles - ancient Greek author of the play "Oedipus Rex, in which Oedipus. kills his dad & marries his mom as part of a prophecy misunderstood.

[3] Greek Daedalus - inventor & father of Icarus. After being imprisoned, he builds wings that allow him and his son to fly away. Icarus ignores his father’s warnings, flies too close to the sun, and it melts the wax holding the feathers together.

[4] DEFUSE-proposal to DARPA [long story], where scientists wanted to do the exact thing they have sworn up and down that no one wants to do.

[5] PREDICT-project that gathered viral samples for WIV from 2009-2019, some of which would be used for GOF [Gain-of-Function] & GOF-like experiments

The devil always gets his due

~Rixey