Paradise Lost

[Daniel Faraday]

Has anyone read the whole thing?
I am only on book one which is mostly about Lucifer being cast from heaven.

I'll start again tomorrow. (After some sleep.)

[Daniel Faraday]

I thought there would be at least one person to post...

His ministries of vengeance and pursuit
Back to the gate of Heaven: the sulfurous hail,
Shot after us in storm, o'erblown hath laid
The fiery surge that from the precipice
Of Heaven received us falling; and impetuous rage,
To bellow through the vast and boundless deep,
Let us not slip th' occasion whether scorn
Or satiate fury yield it from our Foe,
Seest though yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild
The seat of desolation, void of light,
Save what the glimmering of these livid flames
Casts pale and dreadful? Thither let us tend
From off the tossing of these fiery waves;
There rest, if any can harbor there,
And, re-assembling our afflicted powers,
Consult how we may henceforth most offend
Our enemy, our own loss how repair,
How overcome this dire calamity,
What reinforcement we may gain from hope,
If not, what resolution from despair.
Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate,
With head uplift above the wave, and eyes
That sparkling blazed; his other parts besides
Prone on the flood, extended long and large,
Lay floating many a rood, in bulk as huge
As whom the fables name of monstrous size,
Titanian or Earth-born, that warred on Jove...