
Ep 31 - Milton's Paradise Lost (Book I)
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What in Me Is Dark, Illumine, This Is Why You Need It on the Page in Front of You
The poet Milton, he has this vast abyss himself, the blank page, and he wants to make it pregnant, 40 lines at a time. He says, what in me is dark, illumine, and then there's a sezura, which is a comma in this, a little pause,. So what you have is the first line of that next line, the first word of thatnext line is "illumine," and it's on its own. What we say comes to fruition, we say it and then it happens, you've got to be careful about what you say because words are simply a preface to action.
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