Okay, uh, your summary did inspire me to go read the source, for that bit at least. That's something else!
I note in addition that Sin was beautiful when Satan knew her in Heaven, though by the time she'd gone through the double round of incest births he didn't recognize her any more. (as I suppose makes sense, with her snaky-tail hellhound thing going on, ick!) Which I suppose is trying to make its own point as well. But yeah, I can see Voltaire making fun of all that!
And yes, heh, Milton did not really succeed in making Satan unsexy as a whole...
Aw, Voltaire <3 I am also quite impressed by him reading Milton as a second language learner! I find Milton reasonably hard going even with English as my first language :P
He supposedly learned English in 6 months, and 5 years later I'm still going, "Is 'kleinsten' right?", but then I suppose he was doing an involuntary immersion course, and I'm chipping away in 15-minute increments per day, if that. ;)
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Date: 2024-11-27 06:31 am (UTC)I note in addition that Sin was beautiful when Satan knew her in Heaven, though by the time she'd gone through the double round of incest births he didn't recognize her any more. (as I suppose makes sense, with her snaky-tail hellhound thing going on, ick!) Which I suppose is trying to make its own point as well. But yeah, I can see Voltaire making fun of all that!
And yes, heh, Milton did not really succeed in making Satan unsexy as a whole...
Aw, Voltaire <3 I am also quite impressed by him reading Milton as a second language learner! I find Milton reasonably hard going even with English as my first language :P
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Date: 2024-11-27 04:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-12-07 04:28 am (UTC)He supposedly learned English in 6 months, and 5 years later I'm still going, "Is 'kleinsten' right?", but then I suppose he was doing an involuntary immersion course, and I'm chipping away in 15-minute increments per day, if that. ;)