I'm really really freaked out about something right now!!!

[Bouncy Ball]

I woke up at 2 am in a cold sweat. I was remembering my senior year in college (my first senior year, not the second one). I was an English major and we had to choose two out of the following three authors to study in depth for at least two semesters each:

1. Chaucer
2. Shakespeare
3. Milton

Well, I chose Chaucer and Shakespeare. I read a bit of Milton and said "No FUCKING way."

I woke up in a cold sweat because it suddenly occurred to me, in my SLEEP no less, that I might have made a MASSIVE mistake.

What if I have missed jokes that have come my way over the years that were allusions to Milton or his work? How would I know? I WOULDN'T!!!!

What if I'm on a game show someday and there is a question about Paradise Lost and I don't get it but the geeky guy next to me does?

Worse yet, what am I missing from never having read more than 15 words of Milton? Is my life incomplete?

Egads, tell me!!! Have you studied him? What am I missing? Should I take a remedial Milton course ASAP???

Oh these regrets, they haunt me.....