It wouldn't matter much that no one understands Paradise Lost if we weren't living inside the damn thing.
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Replying to @Outsideness
You'd better not be starting with the Blakean Whig interpretation of Paradise Lost now...
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Replying to @bmarchant3
As if there's another, of the slightest seriousness.
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Replying to @Outsideness
Blake saw Satan's vices as noble because those vices had become modern virtues. Hell is a democracy, Satan was the first Whig.
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Replying to @bmarchant3
"Hell is a democracy" -- C'mon, you've read the thing. Don't be deliberately obtuse.
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Replying to @Outsideness
Hell is a democracy in exactly the same way ours is. Everyone got really invested, said their piece, then the guy actually in charge went...
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Replying to @bmarchant3 @Outsideness
Off and did something only in his best interest, with the backing of the masses.
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Hell is the camp of splitting. Dissent from that, and Satan laughs (then gets on with it).
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