I've made it through the first book (chapter)! I'm slowly but surely getting it. I tried reiterating what I thought happened to Nick and then double checked my work by reading what SparkNotes said it was about. Rockin! I got the basic concept. HOORAY! I'm enjoying reading it at this point in my academic career because I can now see how other authors alluded to it. Within the first few pages I saw the words "darkness visible." The title of William Styron's memoirs of depression.
So far, it just reminds me that the old poets used a lot of words to say a little bit. *sigh* so unlike us in the 21st century where we use 140 characters to sum up our lives on twitter. Let's see can I sum up Book One in 140 characters??
Satan: kicked out of Heaven. Released from chains in the lake of fire. gathers demons @ Pandemonium to see if war w/ God is viable option.
that 139, yo! what up, Milton!
Pandemonium: temple the demons build in hell. Other cool fact: The spirit demons can morph into different sexes and sizes like a shape shifter on Heroes.
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interestingly just after i wrote this post I received an email from big think on the topic of micro-narratives:
"A Short History of the Micro-Narrative"::
http://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=f4d80d83b2b3a40cbc4ddaf7a&id=aeed7c8449&e=76e4eb81ba
awesome summary, see, twittering is so useful IRL! And I can totally slog my way through a few tweets...Milton, not so much, no.
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