The Just Thought I'd Share Thread

[equeen102289]

Originally Posted by LikeAWillow

!!!! You have no idea how much this excites me.

So basically what I love about Milton was that he was a closet freak. This guy built a career out of the idea that the only way you can truly be good to is want to be bad, want to be bad more than anything, but resist that urge. With every line he writes about morality/theology, you feel the tension between what he wants and what he is. I want to analyze the way that tension influenced the works that came after him. Did what we think of as standard Christian doctrine only evolve because it's what John Milton told us Christianity is (though little of what he said is actually supported by the Bible?) I'm so pumped. I can't even put it into words. I just want to dedicate my entire next five years to this, starting now, and do it the justice it deserves. BUT. I get two semester to prove my point.

Favorite moment in PL?

Sounds interesting. Maybe I'll go back and try to read Paradise Lost again. And by try, I mean actually comprehend what the hell Milton was saying.

[Meowi]

Today I found out that one of my best friend's mother passed away.

[CreepingDeath]

Originally Posted by Meowi

Today I found out that one of my best friend's mother passed away.

I'm sorry, Matt. You and your friend's family have my condolences.

[vivfox]

OMG the REAL Vivica Fox responded to a tweet of mine today!!!

My tweet:
VivFoxFireFlies nick alberts
@ @MsVivicaFox @slimofplushblue Viv, you look smokin' hawt in that blue dress!!!!
3 hours ago Favorite Reply Delete

Vivica's response:
MsVivicaFox Vivica A. Fox
@ @VivFoxFireFlies Thankx soo much! I had fun last nite! Enjoyed wearing that blue dress 4sho! :-)
42 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

THE BLUE DRESS

[daniellaaarisen]

Isn't it a great feeling when your favorite celebrities respond to your tweets?!

[RickRobert]

Originally Posted by vivfox

OMG the REAL Vivica Fox responded to a tweet of mine today!!!

You mean you're NOT the real Vivica Fox?!

[tilthefirefades]

Originally Posted by vivfox

OMG the REAL Vivica Fox responded to a tweet of mine today!!!

My tweet:
VivFoxFireFlies nick alberts
@ @MsVivicaFox @slimofplushblue Viv, you look smokin' hawt in that blue dress!!!!
3 hours ago Favorite Reply Delete

Vivica's response:
MsVivicaFox Vivica A. Fox
@ @VivFoxFireFlies Thankx soo much! I had fun last nite! Enjoyed wearing that blue dress 4sho! :-)
42 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

THE BLUE DRESS

Aww, yay Viv!! I know how much that must mean to you

This inspires me to start tweeting Janet relentlessly again

[LikeAWillow]

Originally Posted by CreepingDeath

Congratulations!

I've always loved Paradise Lost.

Thank you so much. And really? I knew I liked you haha. It takes a very specific type of person to like Paradise Lost, but I feel like if you are that person, it WILL become on obsession.

In other just thought I'd share news, Kayne West ~speaks mah lyfe~

On the bathroom wall, I wrote, "I'd rather argue with you than be with someone else." I took a piss and dismissed it...like, f*ck it, and I went and found somebody else.

I've listened to this line about ten times in the past three minutes.

[Ghost_Tracker]

Originally Posted by RickRobert

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Should I physically be able to do this or I should get a doctor, and soon?

That depends - Do you have a bad case of the Blues???

If so, drink one bottle of beer and listen to some old
Fleetwood Mac records in the morning.

[Ghost_Tracker]

Originally Posted by LikeAWillow

GUYS.

I QUALIFY TO WRITE A SENIOR THESIS.

I'M WRITING THAT THESIS ON JOHN MILTON'S PARADISE LOST.

MY FAVORITE PROFESSOR, AND THE HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT HERE, IS WILLING TO ADVISE ME.

IF ALL GOES AS IT NOW SHOULD, I WILL GRADUATE FROM THIS PLACE WITH AN ENGLISH DEGREE WITH HONORS.

AND I'LL HAVE F*CKING WRITTEN ONE HUNDRED PAGES ON PARADISE LOST. MY FAVORITE THING. EVER.

Bam.

#winning.

#so pumped.

#done being obnoxious

If you can easily get hold of a copy of "The Western Canon"
by Harold Bloom, I can tell you that he comments on it in there -
it's easily findable using the index at the back.
I can't promise that it's good, bad, ugly, useful, whatever -
just that he comments on it.

He may also have commented on it "at length" elsewhere.

[Ghost_Tracker]

Originally Posted by LikeAWillow

!!!! You have no idea how much this excites me.

So basically what I love about Milton was that he was a closet freak. This guy built a career out of the idea that the only way you can truly be good to is want to be bad, want to be bad more than anything, but resist that urge. With every line he writes about morality/theology, you feel the tension between what he wants and what he is. I want to analyze the way that tension influenced the works that came after him. Did what we think of as standard Christian doctrine only evolve because it's what John Milton told us Christianity is (though little of what he said is actually supported by the Bible?) I'm so pumped. I can't even put it into words. I just want to dedicate my entire next five years to this, starting now, and do it the justice it deserves. BUT. I get two semester to prove my point.

Favorite moment in PL?

You might just have to turn it into a Ph.D. dissertation someday.
Or even a Full Professorship.

[fumidesigns]

for bfast i had grits and salmon and now i'm eating hershey kisses. smh @ my fatness! and i'm trying to lose another 10-15 pounds! lol!

[CreepingDeath]

Originally Posted by LikeAWillow

Thank you so much. And really? I knew I liked you haha. It takes a very specific type of person to like Paradise Lost, but I feel like if you are that person, it WILL become on obsession.

In other just thought I'd share news, Kayne West ~speaks mah lyfe~

On the bathroom wall, I wrote, "I'd rather argue with you than be with someone else." I took a piss and dismissed it...like, f*ck it, and I went and found somebody else.

I've listened to this line about ten times in the past three minutes.

I can definitely see how it can become an obsession. I've read it twice, but you're making want to get it out again...

[LikeAWillow]

Originally Posted by Ghost_Tracker

You might just have to turn it into a Ph.D. dissertation someday.
Or even a Full Professorship.

If I didn't have other interests that resonate more with me, I definitely would just go ahead and get the Ph.D. I've talked on here a little about how much I value working in education as a means of social justice, though; working as a professor to help the privileged become even more so would just never do it for me .

And Harold Bloom is my boy. Shakespeare, the Invention of the Human. Nothing will top it.

[LikeAWillow]

Originally Posted by CreepingDeath

I can definitely see how it can become an obsession. I've read it twice, but you're making want to get it out again...

Do it do it do it do it do it.