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For anyone thinking "oh, that's a clunky title", it may be worth pointing out the pun it's making. Milton's poem Samson Agonistes (a telling of the Biblical sto
by gjm11 12y ago
For anyone thinking "oh, that's a clunky title", it may be worth pointing out the pun it's making. Milton's poem Samson Agonistes (a telling of the Biblical story of Samson) contains the following famous[1] lines (from Samson, lamenting his capture and blinding by the Philistines):
Ask for this great Deliverer now, and find him
Eyeless in Gaza at the Mill with slaves,
Himself in bonds under Philistian yoke;
and the phrase is second-order famous [2] because Aldous Huxley wrote a book called Eyeless in Gaza.
(The title would be more than a clever but pointless allusion if, e.g., the article were about wireless networking use by Israeli spies in Gaza. But I can't imagine such an article surviving long without degenerating into the usual flamewar.)
[1] That is: famous among those among whom such things are famous.
[2] See [1].