"Every morning I shower with Milton,” says Jenijoy La Belle, referring to tiles she found on eBay and installed on her shower wall. “They show Satan watching with envy as Adam kisses Eve,” a reproduction of William Blake’s drawing for John Milton’s “Paradise Lost.” When La Belle’s cleaning lady saw the amorous nudes, she promptly quit. “She thought they were salacious,” La Belle says. “I kept telling her: ‘Think Adam, think Eve, think the Bible.’” It didn’t work.
A poem of a home
Jenijoy La Belle mixes new with old in her 1920s cottage to create a home that reflects her passion for literature.
Saturday, April 14, 2007 | 12:00 a.m. CDT;
updated 3:05 a.m. CDT, Saturday, July 19, 2008
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