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[satonthefence]

I am pleased to announce I have my Milton groove back ♥

I think it's even taken over King Lear in terms of enjoyment. I just really like talking about it, and it's not even in a Shelley like fangirlish way. Apart from epic similies, as they are clumpy and boring. with the exception f that one about burning marl&heaven's azure.

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[il_cornuto]

That's good :) makes things easier for you anyway

[satonthefence]

Yes! It does :] I should be on track for good preparation on Friday.

I am around, briefly, btw, but I have things I fancy reading/researching as well as some other internetty things I want to do and I'm so tired I don't really feel like talking so have just been cowardly and switched off all my IM places XD Am going to bed soon anyway

[il_cornuto]

k sleep well talk tomorrow then <3

[il_cornuto]

ow wow lj doesn't eat <3's anymore

[littlepassion]

I am pleased to announce I have my Milton groove back ♥

That made me giggle like an overexcited hamster. The ♥ just clinched it.

I bought PL a while ago but never started it, but after reading a book on His Dark Materials which makes liberal use of Milton quotations, I think I'll try it once the January exams are over. No doubt I'll be coming crawling to you for help every five minutes (it's really obvious from the way you write about it that you know it like the back of your hand). ^^

[littlepassion]

PS: One of the passages this book (The Magical Worlds of Philip Pullman by David Colbert <3) quoted was a bit of Satan's musings on why God should forbid the forbidden fruit anyway (Book IV, lines 215-225, copied from the Net):

"... Knowledge forbidd'n?
Suspicious, reasonless. Why should thir Lord
Envie them that? can it be sin to know,
Can it be death? and do they onely stand
By Ignorance, is that thir happie state,
The proof of thir obedience and thir faith?
O fair foundation laid whereon to build
Thir ruine! Hence I will excite thir minds
With more desire to know, and to reject
Envious commands, invented with designe
To keep them low..."

I liked that bit so much I used a phrase for my new journal header. Already a PL dork, and I haven't even read the bloody thing. >< Gets into your head, I guess.

[satonthefence]

ooooh :D thankyou! I havn't actually read that as we're just doing books one and two.

I have a new PL inspired journal at burningmarl which has Eve related Alix Olson lyrics, some PL geekery and a PL quote. I'm aiming to update it for the first time on my birthday and before then I'll mention it as an entry but obv. anyone that sees this comment can add me now if they wish.

[satonthefence]

and yes, it does get stuck in your head. Right now I've got a bit from when Satan moves from the first time stuck in there XD

[safebox]

Ah, I'm jealous of your Milton, sounds like a really awesome thing to study! Must, must read it one day. What other texts are you doing?

[satonthefence]

Yeah :] he is.

I'm doing The Changeling for the synoptic paper that is the contextual stuff and what not, that's for the June exam as we need to learn about the period and other Jacobean literature too. I am also doing a comparison between The Pangs of Love by Jane Gardam and Tess D'urbavilles. After those, not sure what we're doing with Ms Rawlins. I have a feeling it's a 19Century romance book.

You?

[safebox]

Wow, that really is completely different from what I'm doing! I'm just wrapping up my coursework on The Great Gatsby, finished studying Chaucer's The Merchant's Tale, now doing comparison between Dickens' Hard Times and Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South [I never want to be within 10 metres of a 19th century industrial novel again, my God!], plus Lady Windemere's Fan.

[luminescing]

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[satonthefence]

oooh! thanks. Why am I useless?

I shall draw a paint diagram of the loos.