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Sup guys, wanna get into pic related but haven't read the bible, how fucked am I?

>> No.4791531

>>4791491
just get the annotated version

>> No.4791537

this >>4791531

>> No.4791576

Read the Bible then?

You have permission to skip over who begat whom

>> No.4791590

>>4791531
What does annotated version mean?

>inb4 A version that is annotated.

>> No.4791599

>>4791590
Footnotes or endnotes. For something like Paradise Lost, most major modern editions will include them.

>> No.4791610

>>4791531
>>4791537
>>4791590

Get the Norton Critical Editions version of Paradise Lost.

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>>4791610
I have the Penguin Popular Classics edition and it's annotated. Is it any good?

>Poor quality picture

>> No.4791658

>>4791627
The footnotes in that are fine but the actual layout of the text is incredibly poor. Cramped to save space, gave me a headache.

>> No.4791677

>>4791658
That is true. Although, it doesn't bother me much.

>> No.4791692

>>4791677
Didn't think it would bother me, got part way through and threw it out. Having a well typeset work can't be underestimated.

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>>4791491

Frankenstein's monster never read the bible and he got through it fine...

>> No.4791809

You don't need to have read the bible. I read it when I was 16 and it wasn't that complicated to get the hang of, reading it shouldn't be difficult at all for a well-read person.

>> No.4791846

>>4791809
If you haven't read the goddamn bible you're not really well read are you

Unless you're read extensively about the bible. But what's the point in that

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4792058

Milton makes a shitload of allusions to previous works in Paradise Lost, just about every other line I found he references something. Most of the allusions are Biblical which makes sense, given the nature and theme of the poem, but there are also some greek mythological ones in there.

I would suggest reading the Paradise Lost by itself first, sans footnotes/annotations/guide, this way you can appreciate it on its own merits. If wish to delve deeper I suggest using a guide on the second go around, it will help but the narrative of the poem is broken by the constant explanation of references.

Paradise Lost is hefty stuff and Milton gives no quarter here, every line it seems he commits some act of intellectual dick wagging, but stick with it and you'll be in for a treat, especially in the 7th book.

Just an aside, my copy of Paradise Lost is about 160 pages of poem and 200 pages of explanation of references.

>> No.4792063

>>4791491
Considering none of it's real.
Pretty fucked or not fucked at all.