[Milton-L] The two-handed engine yet one more once

[FLANNAGAN, ROY]

After many years of reading more and more essays submitted to the Milton Quarterly, all trying to solve the mystery of what became known around the office as "that damned engine," I almost wrote an "I don't care what it is" note in the Riverside Milton. But instead I acknowledged that it is the most famous crux in English literature, and I cited summary articles by Carter Revard, J. Karl Franson, and Robert Fleissner. I wrote that "[s]cales of divine judgment, a sheep hook, shears of destiny, and the keys of St. Peter have all been suggested" by various critics. One of my colleagues in Ohio, after reading yet another manuscript, sent me the note, "Of course it was a LAWNMOWER!"

Roy Flannagan

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