Clive Thompson on Nostr: npub1728f8…8q433 Aha, I hadn't heard that! Verrry interesting -- I hadn't heard of ...
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Aha, I hadn't heard that!
Verrry interesting -- I hadn't heard of that book. I'll check it out ... great question
Relatedly, I reread Milton's "Paradise Lost" a while ago, and was struck by how much the style of Milton's rhetoric -- his own, that he puts in the voices of the characters -- sounds identical to a lot of high-fantasy dialogue today
He feels like one of the first English writers to crystalize that tone, too ...
Aha, I hadn't heard that!
Verrry interesting -- I hadn't heard of that book. I'll check it out ... great question
Relatedly, I reread Milton's "Paradise Lost" a while ago, and was struck by how much the style of Milton's rhetoric -- his own, that he puts in the voices of the characters -- sounds identical to a lot of high-fantasy dialogue today
He feels like one of the first English writers to crystalize that tone, too ...