How in the hell did Milton write this while blind? And they say Homer was blind...Are you guys thinking what I'm thinking?

He thought it while blind, maybe if he wasn't blind we wouldn't have paradise lost as it is.

>>24558705 (OP)
Orchiectomy + Penectomy + Ocular evisceration is GOATed

It's almost unfathomably impressive to me to be able to dictate a masterpiece

>>24558705 (OP)
The disability benefits gave him lots of free time and without eyes he couldn't get distracted by always staring at girls' big tits coming down the road

Those are the two reasons why I'm not published yet btw

>>24558705 (OP)
>How in the hell did Milton write this while blind?
Dictating the lines to his daughter, I believe. He would work on them in the morning then dictate them in the afternoon. Correct me if I'm wrong.

whats supposedly so amazing about this yapping? seems like a whole lot of religious driven about how man needs darkness to be able to chose light - wow so deep

>>24558766
ok zoomer

>be andrew marvell
>have written some very good, dark poems about a figure called "the mower"
>be good friends with milton, whom i consider an absolute bawler, a primo poet
>letter arrives from him one day
>nearly unreadable
>looks like it was written by john donne's retarded offspring
>decipher "hi marvell, come over to my house"
>the rest is just random references to scripture
>go to milton's crib
>nigga turned blind
>sblood.flaxscroll
>he asks me to help him get his new work down
>epic long poem about the fall of man
>why-was-i-not-so-divinely-inspired.faircopy
>agree to help
>much excitement ensues
>get out quill and ink, only the most finely crafted paper
>here we go
>my genius friend begins his epic
>"the title... paradife loft"
>look at him
>his blind eyes going all over the place
>my year long friend has clearly lost his mind
>mfw this is gonna be a 10.000 line epic about a loft
>mfw the main character's name is retarded
>fatan

Bushwick Bill had to lose an eye before writing Ever So Clear, many such cases.

im ashamed to admit I havent read Paradise Lost yet.

>>24558705 (OP)
>Homer -> ...?... -> Milton -> ...?... -> Borges -> ...?...
Yes, I am thinking what you are thinking. Let's fill in the gaps.