“…A futuristic version of the mi-parti, his pied costume is also inflected by Mephistopheles's parthenogenetic association with 'the dark which bore itself the light' (Goethe 1976(Goethe : 1350. The camera lingers on his Anubis-like black headdress -slit-eyed, like an executioner's sack -which grafts Grabbe's black-clad Knight -an implicit racialization of the demonic, as in his earlier Herzog Theodor von Gothland (Cowen 1964: 124) -onto Goethe's black poodle.…”