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Jiang notes a symmetry with Milton: in Paradise Lost the devils end as snakes, reinforcing the serpent as an image of corrupted desire and theft.
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Milton
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Jiang says Satan must present logical syllogisms and convincing argumentation, not just emotional temptation, echoing Milton's rationalized seduction of Eve.
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Jiang says Milton's Paradise Lost turns Satan into a celebrated rebel, but Dante's Inferno does not glorify Lucifer at all.
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Jiang says humans are imagination personified, and when one expressive sense is blocked, imagination finds another route through sight, sign, vibration, song, or emotional intelligence.
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Milton is presented as a blind prophetic free thinker and Paradise Lost as the foundational text of many secret societies.
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"exactly you're exactly right yes um um and in fact milton will use this metamorphosis for paradise laws because in paradise laws uh the..."
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"Yes. He has to provide logical syllogisms, right? Yeah. He has to convince you."
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"Logically. And he will be very convincing, right? He'll use logic. Just as, you know, in Paradise Lost where Satan convinced Eve, right? It..."
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"...is interesting because what's what what's going to happen is that milton john milton is going to read this and he's going to come..."
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"Another important fact about human beings that is not really understood is we are obsessed with being creative and expressing ourselves. That's who we..."
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"when they're together, they're able to communicate emotionally and that brings tremendous joy and comfort to them. Okay? Does that make sense? All right,..."
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"...into a movie. Okay? Of movement. All right. This is John Milton. He wrote Paradise Lost. Problem is, he wrote it while he was..."
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"...beautiful, okay? So this was written by a man named John Milton. And John Milton, he was a rebel. He was a free thinker...."
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"...revealing to you is divine truth, okay? All right? So John Milton, and his most famous work is called Paradise Lost. And Paradise Lost..."
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"...this in, in, uh, in literature. Got, uh, Gerda with false Milton paradise loss. You have Philip Pullman who wrote his dark materials trilogy...."
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"...the war in heaven right uh and uh that's something that milton writes about in paradise lost but there's this war in heaven and..."
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"...how does creation happen how is it possible for people like milton and keats and shakespeare to create great arts of work a quick..."
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