Satan Is Just Like Me: On Milton, Sympathy, and Protagonists
Classic literature gives readers a glimpse of their own human condition, and then offers them the comfort of fellowship
November 3, 2016
Stop Condemning The Pursuit Of Glory
Put off this sloth, for shame! Sitting on feather-pillows, reclined beneath the blanket is no way to fame— Fame, without which man’s life wastes out of mind, leaving on earth no more memorial than foam in water or smoke upon the wind. – XXIV, Inferno Here and elsewhere, Dante suggests that a man ought to …