Hey guys, welcome back to Young Hertics.

It's Friday, so usually today it would be an installment of the words, words,

words series. I have a bunch of questions backed up. I would love to take more of

your questions about translation and language at rejoice evermore dot substock.com but while I gather

my thoughts I think we're going to move on into a new topic we've been doing a few

different episodes on a series of interrelated questions which you can go back and

and watch or listen to but while I'm gathering my thoughts on that I figured I would

do something just a little different to switch it up and read to you from Paradise Lost. So if you are a paid

subscriber over at rejoiceevermore dot substack.com you probably already know that I

have been recording an audiobook of Milton's greatest poem

and one of, if not the greatest poems in the English language. I think it is just a masterwork

in every respect intellectually,

artistically, linguistically, everything about it is just magnificent and we're

actually coming I realized to the end that's kind of crazy to think about because it's such a long poem, but we're on book 11 and we have reached the point at which Adam and Eve did fall.

It gets me every time, but it really moved me this time

that they, you know, the way that they first eat the fruit

and then dissension starts to break out between them and then the realm of

paradise is taken over.

It's just absolutely heartbreaking and there's a really moving moment at the end of book

10 where Adam and Eve consider taking their own lives and then decide instead to pray for forgiveness.

And I thought that just as a fun kind of variety I could give out this next

installment of the audio book on the podcast for free so I'm just going to read the poem to you. There's really

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