I'm guessing that Paradise Lost [0] isn't standard reading for HN'ers, but I have to say that when I read it for an exam when I was 17, I loved it (compared wit

I'm guessing that Paradise Lost [0] isn't standard reading for HN'ers, but I have to say that when I read it for an exam when I was 17, I loved it (compared with the Shakespeare that was also on the syllabus). The article reminded me why: Lucifer being cast out of heaven... Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire... On seeing Eve for the first time: That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge, But the hot Hell that always in him burns... Superbly visual writing, for a book published in 1667. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost