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I thought it was relatively weaker but still interesting Larry Send a noteboard - 13/01/2011 10:02:39 PM
I've had several grad classes on religious history, including a couple on Early Modern English cultural/religious history, so I'm going to be drawn into noticing those things and to find them to be quite fascinating and far from tedious. That's where I figured we'd disagree, since the theological arguments intrigue me, particularly how Milton worked them in throughout his lines.

So at the various points where he was clearly taking a stance on a theological issue, I did notice that, even if I don't have the religious history background to know much about those issues, and I suppose those held a certain amount of interest to me, yes. Unfortunately he has a tendency of beating you around the head with it and going on about the things at length. :P

And what about the astronomy bit? Did you find that quite fascinating too? ;)


You mean where he tries to riff off of Dante? :P

As for the "beating you around the head", I didn't find it to be that way, perhaps because I didn't approach it as reading a polemical work.


(Edit by Legolas just to fix a missing bracket in the quote and make the layout less confusing.)
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

Je suis méchant.
This message last edited by Legolas on 13/01/2011 at 10:13:30 PM
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