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"...Great things happen when people come together. Where would that irascible, brilliant - yet increasingly blind - old liberal, Milton, have been without his much put-upon aides and his beleaguered kin, who wrote down his verse as he spoke it from memory, word for word. Verse so rich and perfect because of the lucid separation of blind genius - yet useless and lost to time were it not for the simple, human kindnesses of that little platoon around him? ..."