The agreeable eye

an eudæmonistarchives

More specifically concerning: new year

east of Eden in the land of Nod

1 January 2005, around 3.51.

A sleepless night, drowsing over Samson Agonistes. Dalila dandled forth, almost more specious than Helen among the Trojan Women, and the blind man missing his apotheosis, but not heroization. And then there are certain beautiful infelicities; I hesitate to say Milton loses his tone, but perhaps he clings rather too fiercely: Chorus. But we had […]

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