Simmons, Dan - A Winter Haunting by Simmons Dan

Author:Simmons, Dan
Language: eng
Format: epub

>Which way I fly is hell; my self am hell;

And in the lowest deep a lower deep

Still threatening to devour me opens wide,

To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.

Dale stood a long minute staring at the stanza and scratching his chin. It was Milton. Definitely Milton, but not from Paradise Lost . Perhaps from one of the surviving drafts for Milton’s Adam Unparadised .

Unlike in Paradise Lost , where Satan is the most human and compelling character but the reader never sees Satan in his unfallen state as the beautiful Lucifer, the “morning star” of heaven, most favored and beloved of all of God’s angels, this was hell-bent Lucifer’s lament. It was derivative, Dale guessed, of Marlowe’s Mephistopheles—“Why this is hell, nor am I out of it.”

Dale was too tired to play literary trivia games. He typed—

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