[Milton-L] Eve's curls (reply to William Moeck)

[jonnyangel]

I just wanted to weigh in and say that I've always had a man crush on James
Rovira. 

Not that there's anything wrong with that...

J


On 8/30/09 8:59 AM, "James Rovira" <jamesrovira at gmail.com> wrote:

> Do you think it's possible that Milton distinguished between
> prelapsarian subjection and postlapsarian subjection, between
> subjection under God's order and under Satan's?
> 
> Jim R
> 
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 7:47 AM, alan horn<alanshorn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> "The purpose of the verbal and emotional oxymora and their
>>> counterpart in the image of the curling tendrils may be to sculpt the
>>> attitude of the passage."
>> 
>> No, the purpose of the word "gentle" is to prettify and idealize the
>> oppressive relations being portrayed.
>> 
>> That is how apologies work. Defenders of slavery in the American South
>> did not portray the institution as brutal.
>> 
>> Alan
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