devil

“The devil you say! Why, I’m a Southampton man. Did you ever know Harry Russell there?”

I looked back on core memories in my life that I had viewed as me being an indication of my weakness, my wickedness, my deal with the devil, so to speak.

“That’s just the devil talking. I just kept my head down, kept trusting the system and I popped a long one.”

Schools that want to unwind this deal with the devil, even though they profit from it.

For example, they are allowed to make an educational point by playing devil’s advocate in a class debate on contemporary American politics.