Soul Trader
Inspired by a trip to see Faust shortly before Christmas. Selling your soul to the Devil is a mug’s game. Not only is the expected outcome (in a mathematical sense) infinitely bad, it is definitely going to be infinitely bad. From the Devil’s perspective, this makes it a fairly poor offering: only a very small number of people are going to be foolish enough to take such a bad deal. But what if instead the Devil offered a deal in…