the next day, he goes to the spot indicated and enters a dilapidated building just as a man rushes from it in fear. he continues into the interior and descends to a dressing room, where he finds a charred script, a robe embroidered with sigils, greasepaint, a wig with a beard and a cap. sitting down he addresses himself as faust and speaks to himself (the first words spoken in the film) faust's opening declaration of intent to follow black magic.