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I'd bet this is based, at least in title, on the poem "The Hell Bound Train" but without a source and terrible laziness, perhaps someone else will clarify it. <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/75.177.47.137|75.177.47.137]] ([[User talk:75.177.47.137|talk]]) 03:04, 17 July 2009 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
I'd bet this is based, at least in title, on the poem "The Hell Bound Train" but without a source and terrible laziness, perhaps someone else will clarify it. <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/75.177.47.137|75.177.47.137]] ([[User talk:75.177.47.137|talk]]) 03:04, 17 July 2009 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

== Faust ==
This is a version of the Faust story as dramatized by Goethe. The magic watch that can stop time is the counterpart of the "Moment, remain, thou art so fair" spell in Goethe's drama, which will cause Faust to lose his soul of he uses it.
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A truly great story. A modern fable. It was made into a Twilight Zone or an Outer Limits I think. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.179.22.132 (talk) 05:07, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]


I'd bet this is based, at least in title, on the poem "The Hell Bound Train" but without a source and terrible laziness, perhaps someone else will clarify it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.177.47.137 (talk) 03:04, 17 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Faust

This is a version of the Faust story as dramatized by Goethe. The magic watch that can stop time is the counterpart of the "Moment, remain, thou art so fair" spell in Goethe's drama, which will cause Faust to lose his soul of he uses it. 71.59.43.26 (talk) 03:15, 30 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]