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Book VI footnote: "564-566 The wordplay in discharge, charge, and touch has been regarded as a deplorable attempt at humor on M.'s part. The point is rather that these puns, like those of Belial in lines 621-627, are characteristically Satanic reductions from the metaphorical to the literal. Raphael's pun in "hollow truce" (line 578) works the other way: it moves from the literal to the metaphorical."
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Book VI footnote: "564-566 The wordplay in discharge, charge, and touch has been regarded as a deplorable attempt at humor on M.'s part. The point is rather that these puns, like those of Belial in lines 621-627, are characteristically Satanic reductions from the metaphorical to the literal. Raphael's pun in "hollow truce" (line 578) works the other way: it moves from the literal to the metaphorical."
— Jul 22, 2019 11:20AM
