Word: epicent
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Milton enthusiasts spent over nine hours tackling the 12-volume epic poem, Paradise Lost, from cover to cover last night in the Signet Society house. The long journey, termed “Milton Madness” by Signet Society member and event organizer, Grace Tiao ’08, began with more than 20 avid participants. Tiao said that she was inspired to organize the marathon reading by her desire to read the epic aloud with others and the “curiosity to know what Satan sounds like at three in the morning.” For added effect...
...concentrators with quaintly archaic tastes in music to make some sort of a living out of their skills. It will take a populist’s appreciation for the common man, an intellectual’s pure curiosity, a sentimentalist’s attachment to useless artifacts, and an epic poet’s literary stamina, but Ross has both paved the way and set the standard. The rest is up to you.—Staff writer Jillian J. Goodman can be reached at jjgoodm@fas.harvard.edu...
...Conversely, the verbal action stalls halfway through the second half in order to present the most epic fight scene you’re likely to ever witness between a man, two Venus flytraps, and a piranha. This elaborate analogy for Jonathan’s rebellion against his mother destroys some of the forward drive the dialogue worked hard to create, but is so funny it’s hard to fault...
...Jonathan J. Carpenter ’07, Allan S. Bradley ’11, and Sam D. Stuntz ’10) become figures from Rosepettle’s past as she describes her relationship with her dead husband. They later embody the plant and fish of the epic battle scene, allowing the play to fully embrace an element of surrealism as it heads toward its remarkable climax...
...mixture of “Hoppípolla” and “Njósnavélin.” “Í Gær,” which was featured in the trailer for “Heima,” is an epic composition in the vein of “Saeglópur” and “Popplagið.”Though about half of “Hvarf-Heim” is outstanding, the other tracks seem basically pointless. Reworked versions of “Samskeyti?...