[Milton-L] Areopagitica in the NYPL

[FLANNAGAN, ROY]

This thread may be continuing into boredom, but I get an image of the congealed blood of a holy blissful martyr (as in Chaucer) coming back to life yearly--even though I know this is not a Protestant image at all.
 
Roy Flannagan

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From: milton-l-bounces at lists.richmond.edu on behalf of Horace Jeffery Hodges
Sent: Mon 2/9/2009 4:07 PM
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Now that I'm focused on this quote from Areopagitica, it strikes me as rather odd:

	"A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."

Can blood be embalmed? It's usually removed in the embalming process, isn't it? What would 'embalmed blood' be? Chemically preserved?
 
At any rate, an embalming process wouldn't provide the blood "a life beyond life," would it? Does this metaphor make any sense?
 
Jeffery Hodges

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From: Martin Hyatt <martinhyatt at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [Milton-L] Areopagitica in the NYPL
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Date: Monday, February 9, 2009, 7:47 AM

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