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All About Eve
God is great, Eve is beautiful but unintelligent, Adam is a paragon of integrity, Satan is the epitome of evil. Whether or not any of these things are true in Paradise Lost, they are ideas presented by characters in the works to be taken as true or as believed by those characters. So the fundamental conflict is a conflict of perception. Eve might ( Read more... ) -
Eternal Darkness
"The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things."
-Oscar Wilde from the Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray
Who is John Milton in Paradise Lost? Is he Satan, is he God, is he the narrator ( Read more... ) -
The Roundhead Chestburster
It was 100 Fahrenheit at my apartment to-day which is usually ten degrees cooler than most places in San Diego. So I've exiled myself from that plane to-day and met my mother for lunch and am now at Barnes and Noble. Expelled from--I don't know whether to call it heaven or hell. But it's a relatively good segue into discussing John Milton about ( Read more... ) -
The Paternal Hand to Push Us Down
Three books into the old King Jim now, I just finished Leviticus last night, the one infamous for two passages where God condemns homosexuality ( Read more... )
