Episode 50 - Paradise Lost
Dec 20, 2023•1 hr 25 min•Season 4Ep. 50
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Episode description
Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our fiftieth episode and (anti-)Christmas special, we go into John Milton's Puritanical vision of the Fall of Man, Paradise Lost (1667) ... where Milton may just be of Satan's party. It's a world where God is both a mall security guard and the leader of a sex cult, and neither role explains his mysterious ways. Daniel discovers the word, 'Ayyyoooo!', Abby reminisces about '90s pop culture, and both of them hate Milton's Alt Jesus.
Cover art © Catherine Wu.
Episode Theme: Purcell, 'March' in Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary (1695).
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