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fandomtownies2006-10-19 06:44 pm
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Aereopagitica, 19 October
It's a lovely fall day. Giles has the door propped open and seems to be reading some Milton.
Morning
...Leader of those Armies bright,
Which but th'Omnipotent none could have foiled,
If once they hear that voice, their liveliest pledge
Of hope in fears and dangers, heard so oft
In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge
Of battle when it rag'd, in all assaults
This surest signal, they will soon resume
New courage and revive, though now they lie
Groveling and prostrate on yon Lake of Fire,
As we erewhile astounded and amaz'd;
No wonder, fall'n such a pernicious highth.
Re: Morning
which hasn't been played out yet, so I don't know exactly what she looks like. Maybe today she'd keep track of how many times she could make Giles clean his glasses.Re: Morning
whatever it wound up beingmade him clean his glasses.Every time he saw it.
Lunch
Afternoon
Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil, and in so many cunning resemblances hardly to be discerned, that those confused seeds which were imposed on Psyche as an incessant labor to cull out and sort asunder, where not more intermixed. It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowldge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world. And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil, that is to say, of knowing good by evil.
Evening
I considered that many had purchased a less good by a greater evil, the meed of glory by the loss of life; but that I might procure great good by little suffering; that though I am blind, I might still discharge the most honorable duties, the performance of which, as it is something more durable than glory, ought to be an object of superior admiration and esteem; I resolved, therefore, to make the short interval of sight which was left to me to enjoy as beneficial as possible to the public interest. Thus it is clear by what motives I was governed in the measures which I took, and the losses which I sustained.
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