Read “Paradise Lost.” It was a struggle though. Read the old English one that was made into an entertaining movie, but the name escapes me now. Also read a ponderous parody of for a paper in high school. Don’t recall it’s name either, but it was 50 years ago,,,,,, and I’m happy to forget about it! Fielding??????
I have Spengler’s volumes of “Decline of The West” in one of my bookcases, but never managed to make a dent into it! Having to constantly get out the dictionary,,,, well,,,, you know what I mean, But my favorite is still “Gravity’s Rainbow.”
Gravity’s Rainbow better be good, I just spent ten bucks downloading it from Amazon. I love science fiction and I have never heard of it before. It doesn’t make the top 100 in any of the lists I’ve read.