Cable 1995

Milton is "perpetually contriving with language to invent Truth while at the same time demonstrating that Truth lies ever beyond the powers of mortal invention" (4)

• "creative truth-seeking as necessarily, and by definition, an iconoclastic activity" (4)

"Through the ruling metaphor of the book that is our life, the iconoclastic activity of Areopagitica's imagery provides a model for the individual imaginative progressivism that is required for our own independent self-authorship." (7)

"The Image of God in the Eye: Areopagitica's Truth

search for truth -- "this activity is a transformative and re-creative impetus that depends on affective indeterminacy, that anarchic element in the imaginative process that links writer to reader through metaphor's iconoclasm." (118)

• truth as process and activity rather than objective that can be had/found