Friday, 5 June 2020

Fair question

Did John Milton invent most of the demons in Paradise Lost? a Daily Mail correspondent asked. My first thought was no, he invented all of them as demons don’t exist.
    But then I realized that he could have borrowed names of other people’s imaginary creatures, and working out which are which would be a great occupation for someone with lots of time to fill and no idea how to do it during lockdown.

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