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Eve's Sweet Speech to Adam
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Eve's Sweet Speech to Adam

From John Milton, Paradise Lost
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Why should it be difficult for man to write about sweetness? Shouldn’t it be as natural as a bird breaking out into song on a warm and bright morning?

Strange, isn’t it? If you say, “Impersonate an angry man, raging at the world,” I know right away what to do. Anybody would. It doesn’t require a lot of thought. But if you say, “Impersonate a happy m…

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