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Re: Re: Kabu
I was a minx at boarding school. The main Library had many religious books and there were several full of pictures of the most foul and cruel tortures. Myself and a friend used to browse through the worst pictures and then lure other girls up to the library to have a look. Most only ever came once.
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Kabu
on July 16, 2016 at 1:15 PM
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Re: Re: Re: anibanerjee
Aww, I'll now have to settle down on a lot more reading, especially the concept and nature of hell, the rivers that flow there, Chaos, Night, Rumor, Discord and the like. But they are all very fascinating. I'll have to develop lottsa literary muscles 
and for this you are deserving. 
posted by
anib
on July 14, 2016 at 11:30 PM
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Re: Re: anibanerjee
You are most welcome. Not IOL at all. Not many could successfully do what you have done here, and as well as you have done this. Milton's allegories are in themselves fascinating. I am enjoying each post you write. Thank you for all of your excellent work! It's a huge job!
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on July 14, 2016 at 11:07 PM
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Re: anibanerjee
Thanks Presta and I am glad that you like my presentation. Remember, it started from a comment I made on your post and you asked me to give it a go on P.L. I was not so sure then but it did turn out well. In fact Milton's allegorical significances are, in themselves, profound. You do motivate me untiringly, and for this, again, a big TY. lOL!
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anib
on July 14, 2016 at 10:12 PM
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Re: Wiley
Well commented too, sir Wiley.
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anib
on July 14, 2016 at 10:03 PM
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Re: Kabu
Milton was a religious person, and the great critic Ben Jonson did not much like him and criticised him for his political inclinations. But when Dr Jonson commented negatively on Paradise Lost, he had to face a lot of flak for his disillusionment. Thank you for reading and appreciating.
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anib
on July 14, 2016 at 10:01 PM
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Re: FSI
Indeed, rich it is. But then, Milton is Milton.
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anib
on July 14, 2016 at 9:19 PM
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Re: FSI
Indeed, rich it is. But then, Milton is Milton.
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anib
on July 14, 2016 at 9:19 PM
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anibanerjee
Oh, so richly told! You have done an outstanding job for us. The imagery you give to us is so profoundly vivid. The story, and your synopsis, stands excellently on its own and leaves us to consider Milton; why he wrote as he did. So I checked: Protestant, Church of England; considered becoming a clergyman; and the rest of his religious feelings are a bit unclear. Well done, sir. 
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Sea_Gypsy
on July 14, 2016 at 12:51 PM
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Mr.A
Milton seems like one of us trained in Catechism by the Presentation Brothers of Ireland. LOL I almost think of it all as a time when man was so afraid of living he invented what we may think of as psychobabble or definitely the results of a deranged mind.Well written of course.
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WileyJohn
on July 14, 2016 at 10:02 AM
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I am awestruck as how wonderful Milton described both sin and death. Death that shadowy figure. It hoves close to a person all their life. Reality helps us to come to terms with death, though we love life and do our best to keep the shadows from closing in. Sin is absolutely a revolting being as it should be. Sin the daughter and lover of the Prince of darkness, Sin, the abomination.
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Kabu
on July 14, 2016 at 9:36 AM
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This all looks very rich with symbolism.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on July 14, 2016 at 5:30 AM
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