One can never come before something that, of course, has already happened, but this fiction of an impossible firstness is something that Milton is working very hard to accomplish here.

一个人绝不可能先于，已经发生的事情，但弥尔顿在这里就是要,努力达成这种不可能的先知。

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We know this. Milton has already indulged this fantasy of coming before something that's already happened. We recognize this desire to anticipate an already existing narrative, from what?

我们知道，弥尔顿先前就有让自己先于,已经发生的事情的渴望，这种参与到,已经发生的事情中的渴望可以从？

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