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Mephistophelian laugh
A stock Romantic-literature comparison to Goethe's Mephistopheles' sardonic laugh, deployed for comic bathos rather than genuine menace.
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- A Nasty Story §102 мефистофелевским "ха-ха"
A stock Romantic-literature comparison -- the sardonic, devilish laugh of Goethe's Mephistopheles -- deployed here for comic bathos against the drunken, half-dressed brother rather than any genuine demonic figure.
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