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Posted by Epictetus (Member # 6235) on :

Reading Paradise Lost.

Not what you were expecting, I know, but I feel like I've just run a marathon (as far as literature goes) and I had to tell somebody.

[Party]

YAY!!!

Posted by Madb (Member # 10532) on :

I'm reading this post.

Exactly what's expected.

- MaSTERdb

Posted by Epictetus (Member # 6235) on :

Maybe it's the four celebratory Margaritas speaking, but I have no idea what your talking about.

Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :

Congrats!
I've yet to read it but it is on my list of books to read soon(er or later).
[Smile]

Posted by Madb (Member # 10532) on :

Yes, you don't understand whats going on.

Yes it's because you got drunk alone infront of your computer again.

Yes this makes for a sad life.

Have fun reading drunk bro.

- MaSTERdb

Posted by Epictetus (Member # 6235) on :

That's true, maybe I don't. I'm still happy that I accomplished something on my own and that my roommate bought the drinks as a result. I'm doubly happy that I was able to read it without having a term paper about it looming over head. And yes, maybe I don't have a tremendous understanding of the work, and yes maybe I didn't get your joke, but I am happy and that's why I'm posting.

Have fun laughing on your own bro.

Posted by Madb (Member # 10532) on :

Aw.

I'm sorry I hurt your feelings, bro.

But I do, and I will.

- MaSTERdb

Posted by Epictetus (Member # 6235) on :

If I had any indication that your sentimentality was sincere, I'd accept your apology. Unfortunately, I don't, on both accounts.

Posted by Madb (Member # 10532) on :

Knock back another brew you'll make more sense to yourself.

- MaSTERdb

Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :

I feel like deerpark is back from the dead...

So, have you finished it then Epictetus? I own the most beautiful copy of Milton's complete works and I've looked through parts of PL. What did you think of it? Should I plow my way through it?

Posted by Epictetus (Member # 6235) on :

It was a really interesting read, Milton can be a little hard to follow at times (he drifts off on tangents on occasion or will interrupt his narrative to remind the reader of something he wrote two books ago) but I found that if I read it out loud it was much easier.

What's strange though, is that some of the elements of the story of Adam and Eve, as we know it today, comes from Milton and didn't exist before PL was written. For example, the War in Heaven is something that only gets a passing mention in the bible, and even then only in Revelations. Milton expounds on it, making it a literal war, where he describes each day's battles between God and Satan and Satan being cast out. Having grown up Mormon, I was struck by the similarities (minus the whole literal battle with the swords and the whatnot.) Thanks to Milton, that particular story has life.

Also, if your a fan of Buffy, you'll recognize most of the Demons in Hell.

Posted by Phanto (Member # 5897) on :

Epictetus: Congratulations! And Paradise Lost is one of those works that just having read will improve your credibility -- you can show up to literary events and ease in with a "Don't mind me...I've read Paradise Lost." [Razz]

Posted by Epictetus (Member # 6235) on :

[ROFL]

Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :

Madb, please play nice. You may think you're witty but you're not making any friends.

Congratulations Epictetus, I couldn't make it through Paradise Lost when I tried back in high school. (You know, about the time of it's first printing.)