Paradise Lost: on Angel Fucking
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I had occasion to Google this and so I’m sharing it with you. From John Milton’s Paradise Lost, which given a lot of other details is extremely where Gaiman and Pratchett got a lot of their worldbuilding on angels, here is Adam asking an angel, in Eden, whether they fuck, and the angel’s answer.
[Transcript of screenshot: Bear with me then, if lawful what I ask;Love not the heav’nly Spirits, and how thir LoveExpress they, by looks onely, or do they mixIrradiance, virtual or immediate touch?
To whom the Angel with a smile that glow’dCelestial rosie red, Loves proper hueAnswer’d. Let it suffice thee that thow know’stUs happie, and without Love no happiness.Whatever pure thou in the body enjoy’st(And pure thou wert created) we enjoyIn eminence, and obstacle find noneOf membrane, joynt, or limb, exclusive barrs:Easier than Air with Air, if Spirits embrace,Total they mix, Union of Pure with PureDesiring; nor restrain’d conveyance needAs Flesh to mix with Flesh, or Soul with Soul.]
(Screenshotted from a PDF of the 1667 edition.)
I had occasion to Google this and so I’m sharing it with you. From John Milton’s Paradise Lost, which given a lot of other details is extremely where Gaiman and Pratchett got a lot of their worldbuilding on angels, here is Adam asking an angel, in Eden, whether they fuck, and the angel’s answer.
[Transcript of screenshot: Bear with me then, if lawful what I ask;Love not the heav’nly Spirits, and how thir LoveExpress they, by looks onely, or do they mixIrradiance, virtual or immediate touch?
To whom the Angel with a smile that glow’dCelestial rosie red, Loves proper hueAnswer’d. Let it suffice thee that thow know’stUs happie, and without Love no happiness.Whatever pure thou in the body enjoy’st(And pure thou wert created) we enjoyIn eminence, and obstacle find noneOf membrane, joynt, or limb, exclusive barrs:Easier than Air with Air, if Spirits embrace,Total they mix, Union of Pure with PureDesiring; nor restrain’d conveyance needAs Flesh to mix with Flesh, or Soul with Soul.]
(Screenshotted from a PDF of the 1667 edition.)
