16. The references to Galileo in Paradise Lost show a fascination with telescopes (which Milton might have seen during their meetings).
25. Empson's argument: When young, Donne deeply shaped by cosmological revolution, wondered about how space aliens would know Christ
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26. Empson: Donne "was interested in getting to another planet...he brought the idea into practically all his best love-poems."
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27. Empson reads Donne's love poems as science fiction: lovers are on another world, where man is a new Christ.
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@HeerJeet I remember a great early SF story on exactly this topic – a guy traveling to find Christ on his visit to each world & missing him. -
@nothingsmonstrd I believe by Bradbury or Philip Jose Farmer.
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