Coinage
After last night's Milton class, I felt inspired to coin a new phrase- "Necrohippic Sadism". This term names a disorder characterized by obsession with a certain idea, and the inability to approach a new idea, or even to approach the same idea from a different perspective. The result is an endless solipsistic conversation which continually attempts to say the same thing over and over.
posted by windmilltilter at 10:09 AM
5 Comments:
Ouch.
4:04 PM
Diddo - but apt. The term, like its definition, makes one a little dizzy. :)
7:28 AM
Now, now, we mustn't assume that it's possible to know what Milton meant when he wrote what he did. That would imply that the end is more important than the means. It's the journey that counts, people, the journey that counts.
2:52 PM
Given the Miltonic premise so justly put forth by Mr. Flyte, it is interesting to consider the poet's 'journey' in the light of Adam's (the good guy, albeit the duped good guy)...both seem to start out at home base, make a fatal error, and drift. Paradise Lost is unique in that it is not a journey home to freedom, like so many epics...it is a journey 'out' - with no particular direction beyond what has been predestined. A journey is not a journey without an end; and most men, beyond the desire to "justify the ways of God to men", desire Eden.
8:47 PM
I've been using "necrohippic flagellator".
5:18 PM
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