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vivastory
Paradise Lost | John Milton
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The following LitHub article was from last month, but it is a fantastic look at the iconic villains of literature:
https://lithub.com/the-best-villains-in-literature-bracket/

vivastory Who are your favorite literary villains? 5d
BarbaraBB Difficult… Hannibal Lecter?! 5d
Liz_M Richard III 5d
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Ruthiella Dickens villains are the best literary villains IMO because they‘re all so plausible: Uriah Heep, Mr. and Miss Murdstone, Mr. Tulkinghorn… (edited) 4d
vivastory @BarbaraBB He's a top contender for me 🔪🍽️ 3d
vivastory @Liz_M I have yet to read that Shakespeare, but I've heard that from others! 3d
vivastory @Ruthiella Dickens has some of the best. Bill Sikes definitely comes to mind! 3d
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MaGoose
Paradise Lost | John Milton
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Book mail

This fabulous edition of John Milton's epic poem came in the mail a few days ago.

The illustrations by Gustave Dore are spot on.

When I purchased this huge tome, I didn't realize the actual size of the book. A pocket book it's not... 🙄😆

But I'm glad I got it, all the same.

I probably won't start this baby for a few weeks until I finish up some of the multitude of books I've started.

#bookmail #poetry #epicpoems

TheSpineView 😎😎😎 3w
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Lindy
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Nonbinary British writer Olivia Laing‘s experience of renovating a garden in Suffolk is entwined with an exploration of the role of gardens in history & in particular their connection with sociopolitical issues. The role of gardens in the lives of queer folk during a time when it wasn‘t good to be gay, the therapeutic effect of gardens to this day, the lush botanical language: there‘s so much that I love about this book! #LGBTQ

kspenmoll I have this, must push this up in my list to read! 2mo
AnneCecilie I loved this too. I don‘t think I‘ll ever view a garden belong to a big house the same ever again 2mo
Lindy @AnneCecilie Yes, Laing helped me see gardens in a new way. 👀 2mo
Lindy @kspenmoll I hope you have a chance to get to it soon. 😊 2mo
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Lindy
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Sameness was anathema to William Morris. What he liked was individuality amidst common purpose, each person as distinctive as flowers in a meadow.

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Lindy
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The study of botany was an exercise in looking. It made the ordinary world more intricate and finely detailed, as if I had acquired a magnifying glass that trebled the eye‘s capacity.

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Lindy
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There‘s no point looking for Eden on a map. It‘s a dream that is carried in the heart: a fertile garden, time and space enough for all of us.

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Lindy
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Morris thought everyone‘s environment could be & should be more beautiful. He believed it was people‘s right to live in beautiful, unspoilt, unpolluted places & he thought, like Ruskin, that beauty was not a luxury & that luxurious & unnecessary things were actually unbeautiful, since beauty was so closely aligned to necessity & nature.

Lindy @kspenmoll I am glad Driscoll‘s creativity and skill is recognized now, if not in her time. Tiffany hasn‘t come up in Olivia Laing‘s book. William Morris appears to have been the creative genius behind his endeavours, while his wife was busy having affairs. Most famously with Dante Rosetti. 2mo
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Lindy
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What makes a garden such an important constituent of a utopia? It is neither a farm nor a wilderness, though it can push up hard against either of these extremes. This means it betokens more than just utility, encompassing beauty, pleasure & delight, while remaining emphatically a site of labour as well as leisure, a place to please puritans & sybarites alike.

kspenmoll 😀 2mo
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Leniverse
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But Eden also served as a justification, a God-given excuse note for the brutal work. In the seventeenth century, arguments for colonial expansion regularly drew on Genesis, and God's injunction to man to subdue and have dominion over all creation; an attitude, I might add, that is directly responsible for the perilous state of our planet now.

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TheBookgeekFrau
Paradise Lost | John Milton
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Eggs Beautiful 😍 7mo
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