Paradise Lost by John Milton Zoologee you sit there and pay

you sit there and pay attetion

Is there a place to plug in my lap-top

” –Elizabeth Kolbert

only to learn the mysterious circumstances surrounding the gentleman who had the job before him

At the center of their relationship is a mystery about the nature of grief and love which will look different to each reader

Paradise Lost by John Milton Zoologee you sit there and payIn Paradise Lost, Milton produced a poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe inspiring cosmos ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the center of this story, he also created an intensely human tragedy on the Fall of Man. Written when Milton was in his fiftiesblind, bitterly disappointed by the Restoration, and briefly in danger of executionParadise Losts apparent ambivalence