"Perhaps less dry than insincere. Voltaire is dry as a bone, though, dunno how Harris can stand him."
[Ahem. Composure. Regain.]
"But Paradise Lost, now, that's a tale with some poetry. You see, the first sin, told in Genesis, was that Adam and Eve were told, by God, that they might eat anything in the Garden of Eden, the paradise they lived in, save the tree that bore the fruit of the knowledge of Good and Evil. However, Satan, disguised as a serpent, tempted Eve, who in turn tempted Adam, and both ate the fruit anyway, and were cast out from Eden, having given themselves the burden of sin."
[A shrug]
"Milton's work tells the same story, but it provides more emphasis on the lot of the first people and of Satan. Lucifer, he was once known. The first, brightest, and most beautiful of the Angels- servants of God- who became jealous of God's love for man and led a rebellion of several angels. The rebellion was put down, and Lucifer was cast down from God's sight- his lost paradise. Then, when he in turn takes the guise of a serpent, Adam and Eve are both tricked and open themselves to sin, and lose the perfection of Eden, and so lose their paradise. Hence the double-meaning of the title."
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[Ahem. Composure. Regain.]
"But Paradise Lost, now, that's a tale with some poetry. You see, the first sin, told in Genesis, was that Adam and Eve were told, by God, that they might eat anything in the Garden of Eden, the paradise they lived in, save the tree that bore the fruit of the knowledge of Good and Evil. However, Satan, disguised as a serpent, tempted Eve, who in turn tempted Adam, and both ate the fruit anyway, and were cast out from Eden, having given themselves the burden of sin."
[A shrug]
"Milton's work tells the same story, but it provides more emphasis on the lot of the first people and of Satan. Lucifer, he was once known. The first, brightest, and most beautiful of the Angels- servants of God- who became jealous of God's love for man and led a rebellion of several angels. The rebellion was put down, and Lucifer was cast down from God's sight- his lost paradise. Then, when he in turn takes the guise of a serpent, Adam and Eve are both tricked and open themselves to sin, and lose the perfection of Eden, and so lose their paradise. Hence the double-meaning of the title."