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Ep 31 - Milton's Paradise Lost (Book I)

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The First Soliloquy of Satan

Milton got closer to anybody in conceiving the unconceivable, how can one really conceive hell, you can't if it's actually hell but Milton got damn close. There's a lot of maxims and piffy proverb like quotes that come from satan that I think many of us can identify with and that's the scary thing so he's looking around and all his fallen rebel angels are with him  and they've got to pick themselves up okay they've gotto pick themselves up as beelzebub is by his side. He talks of the war that was raised in heaven in dubious battle on the plains of heaven and shook his throne we're at line 105 and listen

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