![]() We can see and hear the plan taking shape, we can feel the surge of determination and energy it brings, and inevitably that makes us curious to know how they'll bring it off. ![]() ![]() After their first struggle on the burning lake, the fallen angels hold a great debate in Pandaemonium, where the characters of their leaders are vividly revealed: Moloch, the fearless, savage warrior Belial, graceful, false, and hollow, counselling “ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth” 6 Mammon, intent only on gold and riches and then Beelzebub, “majestic though in ruin”, 7 who sums up all the preceding arguments and then points the way to another world altogether, “the happy seat / Of some new race called Man”, 8 and suggests that they make that the target of their vengeance. I think it could hardly be told any better. ![]()
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