a living being, it is excessive and therefore dangerous because it has the potential to choke
             itself, to smother everything in its path. When Milton first describes Adam and Eve, they are one with the Garden:
             Of living Creatures new to sight and strange:
             Two far nobler shape erect and tall,
             Godlike erect, with native Honor clad
             In naked majesty seem'd Lords of all,
             And worthy seem'd, for in thir looks Divine
             The image of thir glorious Maker shone...
             His fair large Front and Eye sublime declar'd
             Absolute rule; and Hyacinthine Locks
             Round from his parted forelock manly hung
             ...