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bottlecapps wrote a new post, Jesus Heals a Man Blind from Birth, on the site Milton Macrocosm, Spring 2022 1 month, 3 weeks ago
“Milton, during the loss of his vision and afterward, must have been affected by this passage”
Hi everybody!
As part of my research for the paper, I decided to read the Gospel According to John. My plan is to rea […] -
bottlecapps wrote a new post, Jesus Heals a Man Blind from Birth, on the site The Smoking Lamp Is Lit 1 month, 3 weeks ago
“Milton, during the loss of his vision and afterward, must have been affected by this passage”
Hi everybody!As part of my research for the paper, I decided to read the Gospel According to John. My plan is to […]
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bottlecapps commented on the post, Adam and Eve and Robert Alter, on the site The Adventures of a Miltonaut 2 months ago
I loved Robert Alter’s Art of Biblical Narrative! That book really showed me how the Hebrew writers could create great characters with hardly any detail. But it’s cool that Milton takes this really spare narrative […]
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bottlecapps wrote a new post, Empson’s Milton’s God, on the site Milton Macrocosm, Spring 2022 2 months ago
I’ve been reading a critical text by William Empson, “Milton’s God.” Empson claims, among other things, that Paradise Lost is a great poem not in spite of the convoluted theology, but because of it. He says th […]
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bottlecapps wrote a new post, Empson's Milton's God, on the site The Smoking Lamp Is Lit 2 months ago
I’ve been reading a critical text by William Empson, “Milton’s God.” Empson claims, among other things, that Paradise Lost is a great poem not in spite of the convoluted theology, but because of it. He says that […]
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bottlecapps wrote a new post, American Mammon, on the site Milton Macrocosm, Spring 2022 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Wow! Just finished reading Dr. C’s essay on temptation in the CCPL. I feel like I’m taking a class from a celebrity now–that essay was awesome!
Now I’m torn. I want to talk about temptation, but I’m also excited t […] -
bottlecapps wrote a new post, American Mammon, on the site The Smoking Lamp Is Lit 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Wow! Just finished reading Dr. C’s essay on temptation in the CCPL. I feel like I’m taking a class from a celebrity now–that essay was awesome!
Now I’m torn. I want to talk about temptation, but I’m also […]
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bottlecapps wrote a new post, Sobriety, on the site Milton Macrocosm, Spring 2022 3 months ago
Well this is a late blog post and also a bit of an explanation. I’ve been using drugs and alcohol for a long time, and in about seventeen years of use, I’ve never been able to quit for more than a few weeks. A few […]
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bottlecapps wrote a new post, Sobriety, on the site The Smoking Lamp Is Lit 3 months ago
Well this is a late blog post and also a bit of an explanation. I’ve been using drugs and alcohol for a long time, and in about seventeen years of use, I’ve never been able to quit for more than a few weeks. A few […]
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bottlecapps wrote a new post, Crude Tools of the Primate Multitude, on the site Milton Macrocosm, Spring 2022 3 months, 2 weeks ago
At Lees-McRae College, I took a world literature class. The professor was Matt Wimberley, MFA, a poet. He was also my advisor for creative writing club, so I would often stay after class and speak with him.I […]
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bottlecapps wrote a new post, Crude Tools of the Primate Multitude, on the site The Smoking Lamp Is Lit 3 months, 2 weeks ago
At Lees-McRae College, I took a world literature class. The professor was Matt Wimberley, MFA, a poet. He was also my advisor for creative writing club, so I would often stay after class and speak with him.I […]
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bottlecapps wrote a new post, Time on Tralfmador, on the site Milton Macrocosm, Spring 2022 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Howdy everybody. This post definitely isn’t going to be as long as the last post. Definitely. For one thing, I just had a glass of warm milk, and now I’m very, very sleepy. But there are some burning tho […]
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bottlecapps wrote a new post, Time on Tralfmador, on the site The Smoking Lamp Is Lit 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Howdy everybody. This post definitely isn’t going to be as long as the last post. Definitely. For one thing, I just had a glass of warm milk, and now I’m very, very sleepy. But there are some burning thoughts […]
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bottlecapps wrote a new post, The Sun Also Never Rises, on the site Milton Macrocosm, Spring 2022 4 months ago
The Nativity Ode is a complex poem, but I’d like to begin by attempting a one-sentence summary: On the morning of Jesus’s birth, out of respect, the sun chose not to rise until Mary put the baby to bed […]
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bottlecapps wrote a new post, The Sun Also Never Rises, on the site The Smoking Lamp Is Lit 4 months ago
The Nativity Ode is a complex poem, but I’d like to begin by attempting a one-sentence summary: On the morning of Jesus’s birth, out of respect, the sun chose not to rise until Mary put the baby to bed.
That’s […]
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