I don't have a thing, " Tengo said, "except my soul."" Sounds like a job for Mephistopheles, " she said.

Haruki Murakami
I don't have a thing,
I don't have a thing,
I don't have a thing,
I don't have a thing,
About This Quote

In the novella, The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, Quentin Compson says: "I don't have a thing," T. says, "except my soul," and then: "Sounds like a job for Mephistopheles." Mephistopheles is a devil in German mythology. He is associated with magic and illusions. The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms defines him as "someone who makes or performs deceptions or lies."

Source: 1Q84 Book 1

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