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Anonymous Mon Dec 30 15:25:06 2019 No.14444550 [Reply] [Original]

WTF the Chinese totally misunderstood Milton

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 15:28:08 2019 No.14444571 That's odd. Do they know he's the baddie? Maybe they got confused because the dragon thing

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 15:30:47 2019 No.14444584 So did the English. Christian critics roasted Milton for presenting Satan in a sympathetic manner, also missing the point.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 18:14:47 2019 No.14445577 >>14444584 What you're telling me is that Milton is terrible at getting his point across if both English and Chinese critics took the same (wrong) message from it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 20:21:56 2019 No.14446351 File: 277 KB, 913x681, autism.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Was Yang Xiangji autistic?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 20:54:00 2019 No.14446588 >>14445577 Pretty much, but that's also why Paradise Lost is even memorable. Paradise Lost is one of the few pieces of literature where the death of the author is actually a good thing.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 20:59:09 2019 No.14446618 Oh, poor poor milton! The man has talent and an eye for beauty, but he was a humorless fuck and couldn't get his point across for the life of him!

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 21:00:48 2019 No.14446634 >>14446618 >eye for beauty I'm not so sure about that anon

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 21:18:27 2019 No.14446754 File: 86 KB, 1500x1200, christchanmad.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14444550 >mfw all of China is under demonic influence