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posted by [identity profile] aardvark179.livejournal.com at 10:15am on 18/12/2007
I'm not sure Paradise Lost really sounds like a Swallows and Amazons book, Pilgrim's Progress I think should be.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 02:38pm on 18/12/2007
The Pilgrim's Progress. Is that one of The Canterbury Tales? Maybe I'm just conflating all the books I've never read.

Y'know, it's quite hard to google for books about Amazon(s).
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posted by [identity profile] aardvark179.livejournal.com at 02:53pm on 18/12/2007
No, all the tales in Canterbury Tales are called The x's Tale (for suitable values of x). Pilgrim's Progress is a poem and Christian allegory by John Bunyan, and was written about a decade after Paradise Lost (if I remember rightly). It's meant to be a great work of literature, but comparing it to Milton I think it merely shows the devil has all the best poems as well as the tunes.

Well, okay, it's got lots of good bits in a way, but it never quite worked for me, especially the ending.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 04:03pm on 18/12/2007
Sorry, I fear the smily face I was making while typing the Pilgrim's Progress comment has totally failed to come through on the screen.
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posted by [identity profile] ceb.livejournal.com at 07:02pm on 18/12/2007
"Say what you like about the Amazons, but they do run a ruthlessly efficient online book ordering service."
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 08:03pm on 18/12/2007
I don't like the work practices by which they achieve it; they make the female employees cut their right breast off so it doesn't get in the way so much when packing boxes.
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