[Milton-L] "The liveliest pair"

[Richard Durocher]

Dear fellow students of Milton:

   At a marathon reading of PL at St. Olaf College recently, one of my
students produced this unforgettable version of lines from Book 1:



On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Carl Bellinger <bcarlb at comcast.net> wrote:

> There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
> Rough-hew them how we will,--
>                                                        -Carl
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Danielson" <
> danielso at interchange.ubc.ca>
> To: "John Milton Discussion List" <milton-l at lists.richmond.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 8:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [Milton-L] "The liveliest pair"
>
>
>  My most embarrassing slip of the knife (so to speak) came some years ago
>> when I was reading Book 7 aloud to students and my rogue tongue uttered
>> Milton's lines as if he had written:
>>
>> Then staid the fervid Wheeles, and in his hand
>> He took the golden Compasses, prepar'd
>> In Gods Eternal store, to circumcise
>> This Universe, and all created things
>>
>> DD
>>
>> Mario A. DiCesare wrote:
>>
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> What do you call a vocal "typo"? The most amusing one I recall during a
>>> discussion among Miltonists years ago was in the passage in Book IV:
>>>
>>> Subjection...
>>> by her yielded, by him best received,
>>> Yielded with coy submission, modest pride,
>>> And sweet reluctant amorous dismay. IV.308-11.
>>>
>>> And indeed that wonderful rendering of line 311 occurred more than once.
>>> Fortunately, I suppose, the distinguished Miltonist who uttered the line did
>>> not put it into print.
>>>
>>> Mario DiCesare
>>> Asheville, NC
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Dennis Danielson
>> Professor and Head
>> Department of English
>> University of British Columbia
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