This is a kind of meta-literary allegorization that I'll be performing here: you could also think of Milton the poet as being stuck at this same juncture.

这是一种元文学的语词新作,我现在会开始展示，你们也可以思考一下,诗人弥尔顿也在同样的时刻陷入僵局。

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