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Is Toadvine a morally complex character?
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Do we have any basis upon which to say such a thing?
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So, this is another kind of question we want to ask.
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Now I'm going to move to my second in line, here,
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and that's Paradise Lost. McCarthy rings the changes on
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the great voices of American literature, but also of world literature in English.
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You were talking about The Iliad and the epic tradition.
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In this case, he is entering the great realm of poetry.
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Now he gives a specific revision of Paradise Lost in Blood Meridian,
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if you recall.
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How many of you have taken a Milton class,
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or have read Milton in class?