“Attached is Napi Mephisto. You are free to share the work with anyone … it’s essentially a cobbled together set of essays hi-lighting cultural contrasts without any satisfactory conclusion. It is provocative reading however. “

“Thanks for reading”

Ron West

I will post an essay from this collection weekly for our readers. Thank you, Ron.

-JL

By Ronald Thomas West © copyright 2012

There was no opposition. War or judicial murder had disposed of all men of conscience

–Tacitus ‘The Annals of Imperial Rome’

and then it happened

Amid the thunder and lightning appeared the stranger in another guise, as Mephistopheles

–Aleksander Wat ‘Lucifer Unemployed’