His Pandaemonic Milton

[Queer as John]

Okay, having zooted down to the library for a copy of Paradise Lost (again,
Milton's, not Thomas'!), some exposition on Pandaemonium...

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>From Paradise Lost, Book I, lines 755-6: "...Pandaemonium, the high Capitol
/ of Satan and his Peers..."

fn.: "Pandaemonium: the name, from Greek (pan = all) and (daemon = spirit or
deity) and the conception seem indebted to Henry More's _Pandaemoniothen_,
which signifies the dominion of the devils in this world, which is so
densely inhabited by personified sins of all kinds that:

"What Poets phancies fain'd to be in Hell /
Are truly here, A Vulture Tytius heart /
Still gnaws, yet death doth never Tytius quell: /
Sad Sisyphus a stone with toylsome smart /
Doth roul up hill, but it transcends his art, /
To get it to the top, ..."
(_Psychozoia_ I, iii, 1-6)

-- from Hughes, _John Milton: Complete Poems and Major Prose_.
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Hmm. Much to ponder, yes?

--John
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