Tuesday, September 29, 2026

M I S C H A L T H E = ALCHEMIST (Isaac Newton and Raymond Lull uncover an anagram in Paradise Lost Book I, lines 207-216)

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Him haply slumbring on the Norway foam
The Pilot of some small night-founder'd Skiff, 
Deeming some Island, oft, as Sea-men tell,
With fixed Anchor in his skaly rind
Moors by his side under the lee, while night
Invests the sea, and wished morn delays. 
So stretched out huge in length the Arch-fiend lay, 
Chained on the burning lake; nor ever thence 
Had risen, or heaved his head, but that the will 
And high permission of all-ruling Heaven 
Left him at large to his own dark designs, 
That with reiterated crimes he might 
Heap on himself damnation, while he sought 
Evil to others, and enraged might see 
How all his malice served but to bring forth...

Thanks to John Geraghty

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