More Milton Please
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My recollection of reading Milton what is now five years ago is a little hazy. I know i was sitting in a hairdresser’s waiting room for the last hundred-or-so pages of the assigned readings and that it gave me a new-found appreciation for the depth of research put into what was then one of my favourite videogames, Diablo.
Paradise Lost and Satan played more strongly into my reading of Melville’s Moby Dick; the descriptions of the white whale that reference the descriptions of Satan are just stunning. In a perfect world, i would have the time to reread Paradise Lost, but i shan’t complain for i get to re-read Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy this week.
This post was inspired by a recent article on The Guardian’s Book Blog that can and should be read.


