AdamSmith

From my 8-years-good/then-7-years-bad bf marriage in MA, I am wholly with you.

Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674857476&content=reviews This book by great lit-crit Stanley Fish makes the point that Milton -- against his own conscious intentions -- writes the character of Satan as the true hero of Paradise Lost. That as he rebels against the Almighty, the Father and Son come off as pompous, arrogant, overbearing, whereas Satan is the questor in search of authentic, autonomous being. That Milton is not, in heart & mind, the Puritan that his essays self-portray. But rather the forerunner, really, of the Romantic poets.

Again: Yes.

The Paradiso OTOH is utterly flaccid. Just as is Paradise Regained. The 'good' that comes after the conquest of 'evil' never seems to make very good lit'ratuh (as Robert Penn Warren always pronounced it).

Yes.

With props to @Larstrup ...

Milton of course had Satan saying the immortal line: 'Hell is myself.'

Postmodernism and Popular Culture https://www.google.com/amp/s/literariness.org/2018/03/29/postmodernism-and-popular-culture/amp/

Per me si va Ne la citte dolente...

Very subtle.Very grateful.

If you can articulate, great. if all you can do is farticulate, then...

PS This should not be believed but I have personally been in that garage professionally teaching Jay about 3D laser scanning to replicate/re-manufacture engine/body parts no longer on catalogue.

Much better!

Well (with deep respect) we have a different view. I think him one of the greatest visual artists ever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Flag_(Johns_painting)

'Justin Bieber engorged.'

This is the core sickness in your argument: He does NOT have any of his own money. It all comes from Russia. Trump Jr. proudly proclames the fact!

Try this...

https://www.google.com/

Look, Trump Jr. has said so about Russkie meddling, and The Trump clan's welcome of it, right out in public. A yuuuge lie in plain sight is just not something we idealistic Americans are accustomed to recognizing. Look how long it took us to finally vomit Tricky Dick out of our system.