He credits the writers for much of the show's appeal. ""Lost" seems to me the best and most successful and logical use of a multicultural cast on television,seems organic."

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

That's because to suggest -- just think of it - to suggest that Milton is relying on his memory as he composes so allusively and so dependently, in a lot of ways, so much of Paradise Lost - to say that is simply to say that the poem has been generated by Milton and not by God.

让我们来设想一下其中的原因吧,假设弥尔顿全靠着他的记忆,正如他隐晦而连续地在《失乐园》中引经据典，并将这些以多种方式组合，这在《失乐园》中随处可见,以至于人们可以简单地说这部诗,是出自弥尔顿而非上帝的创作。

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So that's very sad, that part of his art was very very sad. But I still, I feel pathetic as I say in the last pages or so, but I never lost admire of his fortitude in going on and doing as much as he did.

这太令人伤感了,他的艺术也是很伤感的，我在书里最后几页表示了对他的同情，但是我,从来没有停止崇敬他,坚持不懈地做了这么多的精神。

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