houk’s Reviews > Paradise Lost > Status Update

keep forgetting to update! i'm on milton's side now; PL has converted me. he's so brilliant it's hard to manage!! there are truly so few works that tackle a villain's anguish, resentment, and grief this effectively, and with such sympathy and depth. i am thoroughly impressed; i feel unbelievably lucky to have such a profoundly knowledgeable and adept professor to walk me through it.

...can we get back to satan now

finished book 4. if i wasn’t into it before, i most certainly am now.

“which way i fly is hell; myself am hell; / and in the lowest deep / still threat’ning to devour me opens wide”

“where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep: / which would but lead me to a worse relapse / and heavier fall”

MILTON!!!!!!!! perhaps u are a bit of a genius.