Word: deviled
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...have hinted that dreams may be valuable to the literary guild. Some great Frenchman used to solve his mathematical problems in his sleep. Tartini wrote the Devil's Sonata in the presence of his majesty, who appeared before him, as he slept. This must have been very soon after that feast in the lower world, reported by Lamb, where
...seems now very much as if the vein of the Devil had been worked as far as it can be, and the Satan of Milton and the Mephistopheles of Goe the were to remain forever the completes and most perfect literary embodiments of the conception of the Spirit of Evil. The Devil is unique in that although other Christian ideals have inspired the painter, the architect, and the sculptor, the Devil alone has made a permanent place for himself in the very first rank of literary master-pieces...
...Devil has always been my favorite character in fiction. And, if we may judge by the extent to which he figures in the literature of every age since the Christian era, he has always been a favorite with both readers and writers. The Devil is distinctly a Christian character. The Greeks, the Romans, and the Oriental nations, all had conceptions of spirits of evil of one kind or another, but all quite distinct from the Devil. The Old Testament contains a character very slightly sketched, which Christians have generally identified with the Devil. But the spirit of evil who tempted...
...Middle Ages, the monkish chronicles and the legends of saints are full of the Devil, who suddenly becomes a very active member of society. He is now a rather contemptible, mischievous fellow. His primary object is to entrap human souls; but if not successful in making holy men sin, he is content, nevertheless, for he at least makes them miserably uncomfortable. He is always playing tricks upon the unwary, in which he is usually discomfited. A typical example of the Devil in the literature of this time is found in the story of his persecution of St. Dunstan...
...Devil's meanness and smallness is characteristic of all the literary creations of the Middle Ages, with the exception of a few of the national epics...