"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.

You've been "getting ready" for two years.

She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.

Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.

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Paradise Lost

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Anyone read Paradise Lost? I finally got around to reading it and wasn't really impressed.

Milton took basic ideas from the bible and basically added conversations and textual details to it. I know a lot of it's fabricated but it doesn't seem like he really created anything too amazing...at least, not worthy of the "aura" that seems to go with this book.

I mean, I finished it and just kinda said "Okay..." through most of it. I'm not saying it was boring, it just wasn't anything great. It felt kind of like reading Grendel, the story some guy (forgot the name) wrote about the monster in Beowulf. He took and idea that was already established and just made some filler details for it. From a reading perspective it isn't bad, but it's like watching a spinoff show of a popular TV series, ya know?

Anyone else feel this way?
 

"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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Yeah...I don't think so.
 
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I personally loved Milton's Paradise Lost. You are evaluating the epic poem from a far too contemporary standpoint, what Milton did in describing his protagonist, Satan, was to imbue a storyline that did not cast him as all that was evil but to give him a more human side if you will. Before there were true existentialist thinkers, Milton wrote the books with strong existentialist undertones that clashed with the dogma of moral absolutism; this, by itself, is a fascinating critique of religion and the constructs of faith. Milton's epic was ground-breaking and stirred considerable controversy upon publication. Additionally, I recommend you pay deeper attention to the lines, Milton's work has countless deeper allusions and intertextual references that, if caught, make the book substantially deeper. I think you only read the book at a superficial level.

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I remember reading it in high school and not being too impressed with it. But I will admit my taste in literature back then was not very broad. Good literature to me were the lyrics of Neil Peart on Rush's concept albums... :p

"Hold the red star proudly high in hand!"
 

"I'm Not Looking for Anything Serious Right Now"

When a woman says it, guys hear a confession. A heads-up. A scheduling conflict.

Here's the translation: I don't feel anything. Right now. With you.

Watch what happens when a man triggers actual attraction. The busy career, the recent breakup, the "not in a place to date" — all of it evaporates instantly. The same woman who was guarding her freedom is suddenly free every night.

The "22 Rules" explain why. When the right switches flip, her timeline rearranges itself around you.

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MVP - No, trust me, I understand what he set out to do. Satan, however, is not the protagonist. There is no overall hero of this story.

You may be right, however, that I'm looking at it from a modern of a perspective. Even if this is true and I acknowledge it, I don't think I'll like the book any more than I do. :eek:
 
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