Harry Clarke’s illustration for Faust by Johann von Goethe (1925), his own likeness used for the face of Faust. Public Domain Review

The Electric Avatar

From the files of “Faustian Bargains”

It is one thing to make an agreement. To make an agreement without knowing you are making one is quite another.

The year is 1840.

Electricity is but a parlor trick. The only communication is person to person. Or a guy on a horse with a note. Or smoke signals.