This weekend was a blast with the TZE applicant mixer at Sigma Chi at Harvard, Frisbee’s Valentine’s exchange party and applications for new members coming in on Sunday. The Whiptails have also booked their spring break plans to head to Virginia for a tournament and some of my soul sisters got a call back for Wellesley’s dance group Freestyle.
I also happened to have a great Latin class yesterday. We’re currently translating Book II of the Aeneid around lines 200 and we began talking about the significance of the Trojans having been defeated by the Greeks and ultimately the founders of Rome are a bunch of losers.
Now considering how sweet the Roman Empire was, it’s kind of hard to justify saying that they are a bunch of losers. So I brought up Milton’s description of the fall of man in Paradise Lost as a necessary loss in order to allow the Christ event. Kind of an epic loss in order to have a greater win.
While Paradise Lost does really get me going, for whatever reason, we also then moved on to talk about how Bradley Cooper has been cast as Satan for the new action movie of Paradise Lost. I think the casting is way off, and am actually pleased that production has been pushed back so far, but we began talking about ideal casting for our version of Paradise Lost.
I chose Jeremy Irons for Satan, but my professor preferred Christopher Walken. Other suggestions included Alan Rickman. The following is a recording of Alan Rickman’s reading of My Mistress’ Eyes. I certainly think he could do justice to Milton’s poetry.
Hope you enjoy my English major nerd sesh! It actually was a Wellesley professor (and alum) who made me hooked on Milton. Consequences of majoring in English at Wellesley: You will probably definitely enjoy it!