Jul
23
Music?
July 23, 2008 | 2 Comments
Because I’m feeling nerdy and Milton-y, I’ve put up a muxtape sort of based on class, I guess. It’s here, and for posterity, here is the track listing:
01. Elbow - Weather to Fly
02. The National - The Geese of Beverly Road
03. Amy Annelle - Will Try
04. Wintersleep - Jaws of [...]
Jul
21
Foreshadowings, etc.
July 21, 2008 | 2 Comments
So today’s talk of typology was hugely interesting and now I sort of feel like I should go read the Bible through a couple times and try and catch some of this stuff myself. But seeing as I am, like everyone else I think, being swallowed up by a paper at the moment, that doesn’t [...]
Jul
20
Papers?
July 20, 2008 | 6 Comments
Hey everyone… how’s your paper going? Anyone have any worries/concerns/excitement they need to share?
And er, does anyone know the correct way to cite a quotation from Paradise Lost? I’m slightly unsure…
Jul
15
More book eight.
July 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment
I have to start by saying: Madeline, thank you so much for the beautiful flowers and the note, it has made my week, month, possibly my summer. They smell amazing and they’re the nicest thing on my messy desk. Thank you so much. :]
So, I hope my presentation wasn’t too frenetic. I [...]
Jul
15
Book eiiiiiight!
July 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Gearing up for presentation; checking stuff over, making sure I’m not putting my foot in my mouth, etc.
If there’s a moment of enfolded sublimity for my presentation, it’s definitely “sweet reluctant amorous delay.” But more about that later. Hopefully. For no reason, here is a poem–
“To Me He Seems Like a God”
Sappho (610-580BC)
To me [...]
Jul
14
Meaning, responsibility, ???
July 14, 2008 | 1 Comment
First off: I really loved today’s class. I feel sort of like I derailed the topic of discussion, but the things we ended up talking about have been weighing much on my mind these days so I’m hugely glad we got a chance to discuss them.
I’m hung up on authenticity in a big way. [...]
Jul
12
On the read-a-thon. (Mostly un-Milton thoughts.)
July 12, 2008 | 3 Comments
First off, I had a really really great time and I’m halfway regretting that I left as early as I did. (The other half of me is concerned with health matters and is chiding me for not leaving sooner, so it’s a toss-up.) I met some really interesting people–I wish there had been more time [...]
Jul
9
Milton’s Eve
July 9, 2008 | 1 Comment
I think my largest problem with Milton’s attitude towards women is that I continually want to forgive him. I so much enjoy his works and I honestly love his attitude about marriage so I just try to brush aside the undeniable inequalities that happen from time to time. Which is perhaps being a [...]
Jul
8
God, Creation, Meaning?
July 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment
So we can’t really answer why God decided to create it all. Part of this, I maintain, is that we can’t really get into the head of a being like God. There by definition has to be some sort of ineffability going on there, considering that God knows so very much more than [...]
Jul
7
Satan, God, & Responsibility (again).
July 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment
This is what’s been weighing on my mind recently and has only been exacerbated by today’s class–if it doesn’t relate enough to be counted as a Milton post, let me know and I’ll write on another subject, but this is what is urgent to me today.
There seems, throughout Milton’s works, to be a recurrent [...]