John Milton's Paradise Lost

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1. AlotOfReadingAug 2025
   The same in whatever sense you want to compare the art rather than the creators. Pollocks try to convey the action and emotion of the creation process. Our hypothetical copycat lacks that higher level meaning, even though they've created an otherwise similar physical product.

   As an aside:

       ...art should be able to come from anywhere and anyone.
   

   is an immensely political view (and one I happen to agree with). It's not a view shared by all artists, or their art. Ancient art in particular often assumes that the highest forms of art require divine inspiration that isn't accessible to everyone. It's common for epic poetry to invoke muses as a callback to this assumption, nominally to show the author's humility. John Milton's Paradise Lost does this (and reframes the muse within a Christian hierarchy at the same time), although it doesn't come off as remotely humble.
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2. gus_massaMay 2019
   At least in they project the plant would glow forever. In this project they add the reactives submerging the leaves in a liquid with nanoparticles that have the reactives, so it locks like they will glow only once.

   Also, in spite of the photoshoped tree and the photo that has the brightness so high that the noise level is evident

   > The light generated by one ten centimetre (four inch) watercress seedling is currently about one-thousandth of the amount needed to properly read by, but it was enough to illuminate the words on a page of John Milton's Paradise Lost.

   this generates a tiny amount of light, don't expect to use it to illuminate the streets like they hope in the article.

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