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    1. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 22 May 2020

      I am deeply charmed by Nell Gwyn poor actress, became a mistress of Charles II out in a carriage, gets mobbed by ppl who think she's the Duchess of Portsmouth, a rival French-backed royal mistress Nell leans out and says “chill out guys im the _Protestant_ whore”pic.twitter.com/Wrd3AIt5Hy

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    2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 22 May 2020

      in other early modern English drama, Milton was genuinely a spaz im deeply surprised by this after only having read paradise lost and liking it as much as nearly anything else in the english canon lets review some of his behavior's

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    3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 22 May 2020

      1. marries a lady, finds her too dull for his Big Brain she gets sick of his shit and goes back to live with her dad milton gets MAD and writes an impassioned defense of Christian divorce and desperately casts about for verses that would justify it for his case specifically

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    4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 22 May 2020

      2. eventually he decides to just go with bigamy and tries to court someone else naturally she rejects him out of hand HOWEVER his estranged wife hears about this and her pride is wounded and she returns to him "I dont want him but NO ONE ELSE can have him" i guess

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    5. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 22 May 2020

      3. writes an impassioned defense of free speech and press in Areopagitica shortly thereafter is hired by the Cromwell regime and starts printing tracts defending the lord protectors censorship

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    6. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 22 May 2020

      4. My favorite part. Milton becomes academic hatchet man for Cromwell Someone in Amsterdam publishes a screed, anonymously, attacking Cromwell Milton thinks hes figured out who it is and starts circulating rebuttals attacking the author

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    7. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 22 May 2020

      ppl on the ground in Amsterdam get word of this and let him know he's got the wrong guy Milton's target publicly swears he didn't write it Milton keeps dragging this guy anyway eventually publishes a major work refuting the anti-Cromwell piece, 90% of which is ad hominem

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    8. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 22 May 2020

      of fucking course the real author eventually comes out and acknowledges the work Milton simply refuses to believe it never in his life does he take the L

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    9. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 22 May 2020

      this all feels like message board drama and I love it the internet is indeed a worthy medium for the continuation of the ancient Western intellectual tradition

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    10. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 22 May 2020

      one of the best things about Durant is that he deploys a biographical approach to history when he wants to illustrate a particular epoch, he identifies some luminaries--kings, often; popes; authors; artists; scientists--and works through their lives, one at a time,

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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 22 May 2020

      but nevertheless weaves their arcs together. The effect is to see history as a tapestry of humanity; Leo X, say, was not just a potentate who took certain actions, but a complex person whose response to the reformation fell out of his character and those of his contemporaries

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        1. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 22 May 2020

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          broke: great man theory of history joke: social forces theory of history woke: history is the unfolding of the beautiful interplay of individual human spirits expressed in word and actionhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1206495168733409282 …

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          I think I'm serious about this actually Hunch is that bodies of knowledge of this flavor are maybe only feasibly transmitted person-to-person and possibly in the context of a community Can you imagine a postrationality without the dramatis personae?
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