1.2: Press conference with Wagner.

[Kipuka Theatre Admin]

Enter two SCHOLARS.

1 SCHOLAR. I wonder what's become of Faustus, that was wont to make our schools ring with sic probo.

2 SCHOLAR. That shall we presently know. Here comes his boy.

Enter WAGNER.

1 SCHOLAR. How now, sirrah!, where's thy master?

WAGNER. God in heaven knows.

2 SCHOLAR. Why, dost not thou know then?

WAGNER. Yes, I know, but that follows not.

1 SCHOLAR. Go to, sirrah!, leave your jesting and tell us where he is.

WAGNER. That follows not by force of argument, which you, being licentiates, should stand upon; therefore acknowledge your error, and be attentive.

2 SCHOLAR. Why, didst thou not say thou knewest?

WAGNER. Have you any witness of it?

1 SCHOLAR. Yes, sirrah, I heard you.

WAGNER. Ask my fellow if I be a liar.

2 SCHOLAR. Then you will not tell us.(?)

WAGNER. You are deceived, for I will tell you. Yet, if you were not dunces, you would never ask me such a question. For is not he corpus naturale? And is not that mobile? Then wherefore should you ask me such a question? But that I am by nature phlegmatic, slow to wrath, and prone to lechery-to love, I would say-it were not for you to come within forty feet of the place of execution-although I do not doubt to see you both hanged the next sessions. Thus having triumphed over you, I will set my countenance like a precisian and begin to speak thus: Truly, my dear brethren, my master is within at dinner, with Valdes and Cornelius, as this wine, if it could speak would inform your worships; and so, the Lord bless you, preserve you, and keep you, my dear brethren, my dear brethren!
[Exit.]

1 SCHOLAR. O Faustus, then I fear that which I have long suspected, that thou art fallen into that damnèd art for which they two are infamous through the world.

2 SCHOLAR. Were he a stranger, and not allied to me, the danger of his soul would make me mourn. But come, let us go and inform the rector, and see if he by his grave counsel can reclaim him.

1 SCHOLAR. O, but I fear me nothing can reclaim him now!

2 SCHOLAR. Yet let us try what we can do.
[Exeunt.]

[Lani]

I totally see this as two paparazzi hassling Wagner...I don't know why, but that is what keeps popping up in my mind ()

[Heloise]

Interesting mirror effect ... The scholars who are supposed to be higher status that Wagner ( right ? ) , yet all they do is keep asking questions while Wagner is dismissing them ... Interesting how the vocabulary Wagner used his highly patronizing. I like the reversed class/ social statuses here ?

[Tuan]

To a degree I feel like Wagner is just being awkward for the sake of being awkward, and I guess that's what the scholars think too. They ask quite simply where Faustus is. The answer Wagner gives eventually is that Faustus is at dinner, but instead of giving them the answer straight of the bat (s)he is confrontational with them. Why is Wagner blocking them?

[Heloise]

Maybe Wagner is being too casual ?