`Author:` ## Summary ## Key Takeaways ## Quotes - ## Notes > [!info] > ## Highlights ### What The Hell It's called gaslighting and it's how ideology works. At St. Paul's School we schoolboys had no idea that "Jerusalem" was the epigraph of a gigantic and radical engagement with John Milton (Blake's huge poem, Milton). Milton, who compares Satan with a colonialist spice merchant as he voyages through Chaos to Earth and with a colonialist military commander as he perches on the walls of Eden (Paradise Lost 4.14I-17I)[^1] We "Paulines" (yes) had no idea that Milton and Blake were all about embodying revolution. Our teachers never thought to show us Blake's pushing the utopian feelings out through "the Portals of [his] Brain" and "down ... [his] right arm," connecting feelings and thoughts and limbs, the continuity of the image demolishing at a stroke the image of the mind as master and the body as slave in the very act of imagining Milton as a revolutionary very keen to demolish this duality himself. Pg. xxii Paragraph: 3 `Concepts:` `Knowledge Base:` [^1]: John Milton, Paradise Lost, ed. Alastair Fowler (London: Longman, 1971).