{"id":1402515,"date":"2018-06-12T11:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1402515"},"modified":"2019-02-08T11:26:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T16:26:46","slug":"paradise-lost-as-told-in-a-series-of-texts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/paradise-lost-as-told-in-a-series-of-texts\/","title":{"rendered":"Paradise Lost<\/i> As Told in a Series of Texts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Paradise Lost<\/i> is not an easy read. It was written in the 1600s, it’s very long, and everything’s a metaphor for eternal sin. Besides, you probably think you know the story. Satan rebelled, God threw him out, Eve ate an apple, Jesus was somewhere.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the worst thing about it, however, is that John Milton wrote it in INCOMPREHENSIBLE blank verse rather than the WHOLLY MORE ACCESSIBLE FORMAT of text messages. I mean, we can’t really blame him<\/em> for being born hundreds of years before the advent of modern technology, but we can certainly mock him for it. (What a moron!)<\/p>\n

Had Milton been born in a more now-ish time, here is what Paradise Lost<\/em> would have looked like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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