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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ripzerai" data-source="post: 4001919" data-attributes="member: 38324">Yeah, sorry. I always have to go there, don't I?What I meant is that there's no real "logical" reason to prefer Milton to Moorcock, plot-wise (I won't go into the respective quality of the writing, as Milton didn't write Paradise Lost in two weeks while on chemical stimulants); both authors wrote epic, provocative plots that tap into deep Jungian archetypes. You can certainly (and have) explain your tastes rationally. I just don't think you can prove your tastes are superior using that method. I do disagree with your analysis that races built using Moorcockian themes would be more alien than personications of various spiritual and ethical themes. He tends to use phrases like "Lords of Chaos," "The Balance," "The Just," "Lords of the Higher Worlds," and so on more than made-up words like "Karothians." His "Blood-Red Game of Time" is explicitly allegorical. See his The Warhound and the World's Pain and The War Amongst the Angels, for examples of his bending of Miltonian themes to his purposes.</blockquote>