[Milton-L] New to list - Epic Simile question/Paradise Lost

[Carol Barton]

Congratulations, Mr. "Angel." You have now insulted a retired 
professor who is also a member of the clergy. Perhaps you'd better go 
study Satan and Pandemonium a little more closely. I suspect you will 
be getting to know them personally, before too long.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jonnyangel" <junkopardner at comcast.net>
To: "John Milton Discussion List" <milton-l at lists.richmond.edu>
Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2008 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Milton-L] New to list - Epic Simile question/Paradise 
Lost


> To the member of the peanut gallery that stated that my definition 
> of
> enormous and enormity never appeared in a dictionary, please feel 
> free to
> stick these in your pipe and smoke number three.
>
> http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/display/50075736?keytype=ref&ijkey=LzuQs1ZeNjv
> JY
>
> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/enormity
>
> J
>
>
>
> On 9/28/08 4:13 PM, "gilliaca at jmu.edu" <gilliaca at jmu.edu> wrote:
>
>> .>   "Margie" is Professor Thickstun, and regardless of
>>>   your age, your tone is adolescent, arrogant, and
>>>   disrespectful. I think you owe her and the other
>>>   members of this list who have "condescended" to try
>>>   to help you an apology for wasting their time, and a
>>>   thank you for giving you a number of shortcuts to
>>>   the research a 36-year old student should be capable
>>>   of doing himself.
>>
>> Thank you for writing this.
>>
>> I'm wondering how many others who have followed this thread assumed 
>> that the
>> research paper question, and especially the subsequent comments, 
>> came from a
>> college student who had too often been praised for his 'wit.' I had 
>> figured
>> him for a sophomore.
>>
>> C
>> Cynthia A. Gilliatt
>> English Department, JMU, ret.
>> JMU Safe Zones supporter
>> "You have made God in your own image when God hates the same people 
>> you hate."
>> Fr. John Weston
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