I would actually love to see a really good modern epic poem. I think that has the potential to be amazing (or terrible).

That is really, really true. I had a great teacher for Paradise Lost, and I had a great teacher for Latin, where we read the Aeneid. I can hear both their voices in my mind when I’m reading Paradise Lost, with all its epic poetry conventions and classical references. They were two teachers who knew their subjects inside and out, and loved them – it makes such a difference.

Yes, exactly! I may be influenced in my desire for a graphic novel by Season of Mists, where Lucifer was quoting Milton all the time.

So I come to: I wish a modern-day Milton would write about the paradise we’ve lost in our own time.

*cries in the face of sisterly disapproval*

Also, you didn’t seem like you were mocking him last time, you were just telling stories. It was AWESOME.

…also, the corn here? SO GOOD. I just went to the store to get some bread for lunch (I slept late and read in bed, so lunch was very late) and they had corn! And oh, it was corn, corn so very very delicious it blowed up my mind. Usually I only have one cob for lunch, on those occasions when I have corn, but I had two, and contemplated a third very seriously, only deciding against it because it was such a late lunch, and I might be able to have corn for dinner.

Just letting you know so you can have something to look forward to upon arrival: CORN! COOOOOORRRRRRNNNN!

I bet it would make a fantastic graphic novel, if the writers and artists did it right. I’d like to see someone try to do that – maybe it would lead people to the original poem! Milton is difficult, though. I lose track of a lot of his sentences and have to go back and start over to figure out what the proper syntax is.

Well, my professor was actually the head of our English department, which is why I felt so lucky to have been able to take the class. She doesn’t teach it every semester, because she has too many other obligations. My little sister never got a chance to take it, which I think is sad.

Oh, I liked that too. What books did y’all present? My group I know had Book Nine (I was very excited about that), and then I don’t remember what else we had. We had the scene where Eve falls. I talked to the snake. 😛