Milton needs to imagine the narrative of the Creation as if the narration itself were taking place in the beginning, as if poetic creation could be a first in the same radical way that the creation of entire universe is obviously a first.

弥尔顿想象的对上帝创造万物的讲述,与上帝创造万物一样发生在太初之时，诗歌创作与整个宇宙的创造,都发生在太初之时。

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Ms Miller tells it straight, in a third person narrative with a beginning, middle and end.

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The electoral battle of 2012 is over, but the battle of the narrative is just beginning.

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He gave the story narrative drive right from the beginning and established the kind of dark humor that Portal 1 let in little by little.

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