John Milton's Paradise Lost
by Caroline Moore · first published 2018
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…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.
on “Living Plants That Glow Like a Lamp (2018)” ↗…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.
on “I Am An AI Hater” ↗