<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>There's a tradition in some medieval texts and late medieval morality plays that the devil limps when he's in disguise because he's got hooves instead of feet. And unless I'm completely wrong, it's not in Milton.<br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Sergei SOLOVIEV <soloviev@irit.fr><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> The Urth Mailing List <urth@lists.urth.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, March 24, 2012 5:12 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re:
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Is there nothing in "Paradise Lost" on this?<br><br>Sergei Soloviev<br><br>Marc Aramini wrote:<br>> According to commentary I once read on the Master and Margarita on oil being rubbed into someone's knee, the injured leg of Satan is commonly attributed to his fall from heaven ... but I don't know of a REAL source for this - it isn't biblical as far as I know.<br>> <br>> --- On *Sat, 3/24/12, Gerry Quinn /<<a ymailto="mailto:gerry@bindweed.com" href="mailto:gerry@bindweed.com">gerry@bindweed.com</a>>/* wrote:<br>> <br>> <br>> From: Gerry Quinn <<a ymailto="mailto:gerry@bindweed.com" href="mailto:gerry@bindweed.com">gerry@bindweed.com</a>><br>> Subject: Re: (urth) Trial summer project short story: Easter Sunday<br>> To: "Jerry Friedman" <<a ymailto="mailto:jerry_friedman@yahoo.com" href="mailto:jerry_friedman@yahoo.com">jerry_friedman@yahoo.com</a>>, "The Urth
Mailing<br>> List" <<a ymailto="mailto:urth@lists.urth.net" href="mailto:urth@lists.urth.net">urth@lists.urth.net</a>><br>> Date: Saturday, March 24, 2012, 2:53 PM<br>> <br>> Enjoyable enough albeit a bit obvious. But why does the Devil<br>> have a limp? Is there a tradition here I am unaware of?<br>> No doubt Lee will chime in to point out that this means Severian<br>> is the Devil Winking smile<br>> - Gerry Quinn<br>> <br>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Urth Mailing List<br>> To post, write <a ymailto="mailto:urth@urth.net" href="mailto:urth@urth.net">urth@urth.net</a><br>>
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