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Book III

ngl Paradise Lost goes hard.
"The mind is its own place and in itself can make a Heav'n out of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.",
"Whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme above his equals." and of course
"Better to reign in Hell than to serve in aheav'n" are some of my favorite quotes from the first book :)))

Reading Milton’s Paradise Lost and Paradise regained for a local men’s book club. So for now I’ll only be getting to page 743 of this volume and Paradise lost begins on page 149. This project is supposed to take us close to two years on the current schedule.

I’ll hopefully update here for each book completed.

Getting to the point now where I can read ten pages of Paradise Lost without my head burning, and it’s very good! Reading Paradise Lost before the rest of the things in this book.

Hands down the most challenging work I have ever read. I laboured over these four pages for half an hour!

Laboured over five more pages this evening. This truly is magnificent and I can see the rewards of reaading, re-reading and knowing it. This first read just lays the groundwork it feels like. Like putting together the frame of a puzzle.