Your Mephistopheles verse reminds me that I can only see that old devil as a stereotype. When I was working in the electrical business so many years, one of our most popular lines of electricians’ tools was the MEPHISTO TOOLS, with him as an old red devil with tail and hooves. Anyhow he made the best tools around . . . they had to have been forged in Hell itself. Anybody who can make tools that good can’t be all bad. — Letter So one question that may occur to a Lafferty reade