C. S. Lewis’s summary of Satan’s driving motive in John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost. Having traversed heaven, hell, and the whole cosmos, Satan finally becomes focused only on himself—an infinite boredom inescapable. Adam, born into a small park, is so quickly filled with awe and wonder at the creation that he seems to almost forget himself in the grandeur of it all. See C. S. Lewis, A Preface to Paradise Lost (London: Oxford University Press, 1961), 101–3.
