Today's Topics:
Blake at Yale: don't miss it
Re: the Spectre named Urthona
Comment of inexperience
Re: old world/new world
Comment of inexperience -Reply
Re: the Spectre named Urthona
Re: Los, me, and our spectres
Re: 'Old' & 'New'
visions
re: visions of the daughters of albion
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Re: 'Old' & 'New' -Reply
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Of war and strategies
STEDMAN IN FICTION: BLAKE SIGHTINGS
BLAKE SIGHTINGS: WILSON HARRIS AGAIN
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Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 19:37:56 -0500
From: jmichael@seraph1.sewanee.edu (J. Michael)
To: blake@albion.com
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I've just returned from a hasty weekend trip to New Haven to see the
exhibit, and I'm absolutely overwhelmed by it. Despite the announcements
on the list, I wasn't sure how much would actually be displayed: I half
expected the famous copy of _Jerusalem_ to be in a glass case where we
could only see one page. Not so: all 100 plates are carefully matted (in
groups of 4, very appropriate) and displayed on the walls of one spacious
room--much the way Northrop Frye said the poem should be experienced,
synchronously or simultaneously, like standing in the middle of a city. I
practically wept to think that this copy of _Jerusalem_, with all the labor
it embodies, was never purchased during Blake's life--but then how could
you put a price on it?
For me it was almost a religious experience. No facsimile, not even the
excellent Princeton volumes, can match the delicacy and clarity of the
designs. I was particularly struck by the bright blue tones in the copy of
_America_, which was also displayed in its entirety, as were _The Book of
Thel_ and _The First Book of Urizen_. Blake's illustrations to the poems
of Gray are there too. These are just a few highlights; I hope many of you
can go to see for yourselves. If you can get to New Haven, admission to
the museum is free. I regret that my Urizenic class schedule won't permit
me to hear the talks by Morris Eaves and Joseph Viscomi this week, but
c'est la vie. ("Bring out number, weight and measure in a year of
dearth.")
Jennifer Michael
P.S. The museum shop also has a number of goodies, including a mousepad
with Blake's picture of Newton (appropriately enough) and some nice
notecards featuring title-pages from various books at $1.00 apiece--cheaper
than Hallmark.
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Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 21:01:18 -0700
From: Steve Perry
To: blake@albion.com
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TomD3456@aol.com wrote:
>
> Steve-
> Umm ... Huh? I don't really understand what you're trying to say. Want to
> run that by us again?
>
Gloudina had said:
> I would also like to think about how his Spectre helps Los
> in the building of Golgonooza.
and I responded:
>Blake and Los are certainly not losing anything in their tasks
>by not having the reasoning power afforded by their
>respective Spectres. In that the drama is post-lapsarian,
>there is a sort of hegelian dialectic going on here; the work of
>Golgonooza would not go on lest for the war over which it
>were raised. Likewise, the tools of the Urizenic world, the
>metals, the forge, the hammer, the brush and awl are all part
>of the science wrought by the fall.
I can see your point, I guess the flu bug I was fighting last week
wasn't only affecting me physically.
My point was that the spectres and for that matter the emanations
(thanks for your illuminating post Pam) are active participants in the
creation of Golgonooza, if not only by the disharmony that they create.
In that sense I was suggesting that this whole process seems somewhat
Hegelian. I think that Los' Spectre, who may be self doubt or as you
suggest the absence of live or perhaps the accuser drives Los to create
materialize his image of eternity and divinity, which is the building of
Golgonooza. Finally, I was also saying that even the tools created by
the specrtes of Urizen, science and the instruments of war, end up being
used in the creation of Golgonooza.
I have no doubt tied my tongue again, but through my less fevered eyes
this does seem a little more intelligible.
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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 03:04:16 -0500
From: joz@cove.com
To: blake@albion.com
Subject: Comment of inexperience
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I read the posts of most people and am fascinated by the depth of reading
and lateral assimilation of other writers who may (or may not) be said to
be dealing with the same ideas or song material as Blake. I am not as well
read as others here.
But I am frustrated. An earlier discussion of Ginsberg left me questioning
why I went along with the idea of equating Blake with him. Now that I
think about it, I find Blake all together different and not specifically a
proponent of freedom personally or otherwise. I don't think Blake even
thought common moral questions found any reasonable expression in what
Ginsberg might call reality and would not put them there. Blake writing a
poem about an ordinary supermarket would resemble Becket more than
Ginsberg's tittilation. If Blake's poetry lived
(I can not say where his physical body might have lived with any moral
conviction)
in this more kinetic, ultra-palpable reality that I think it did,
Ginsberg's poetry lived in a reality that could be found at the conjunction
of everyone's separate gazes. He lived with the media's tongue stuck down
his throut and tickling his vocal chords to come like a womb. Ginsberg
wasn't a rebel. He was telling us what we would soon be believing. He
didn't start a revolution; he sang in a sweet strange melody that drew
people on to the next game. He certainly didn't stop any wars. He is a
poet in the court of the emporerer Public; and like a good court poet, he
played fool sometimes, and at others he wrote very good love poetry, and
hymns. Blake, on the other hand, is a terrifing voice from outside
science, reason and common sense, and yet uses the talents of all those, to
make a song that sings to the mind and body as if they were the same.
Blake doesn't make something true by screaming it. He would find what
people today call freedom, an unproductive diversion, he would say "love"
is a noun not a verb, and that "genius" obviously wasn't a good idea for a
word after all and now we'd better take it out of dictionaries.
I feel that Blake simply isn't talking in the same way the rest of us (and
Allen) are. He is not in the same book or library, but he is somehow on
the same page. He didn't invent, he believed.
Sorry, I am an epileptic and used to see things myself (in that gross
unified way). Perhaps thats why I can't quite explain what I mean.
joz
PS Charlie K
thanks for all the quotes
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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 08:27:36 +0100
From: timli@controls.eurotherm.co.uk (Tim Linnell)
To: blake@albion.com
Subject: Re: old world/new world
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> So you watch Star Trek, Ralph Dumain! How could you.
>(Only good thing about Star Trek is that it took the
>word "trek" from my former native tongue and made
>it a household word in North America in my lifetime.)
>And by the way, wasn't Star Trek originally conceived
>by the British, members of that tired and outdated old
>world culture which your "new world" culture has
>supposedly superceded.
Sorry, but you can't pin this one on us. Star Trek is in fact a purely
American product, initially being largely based on the 'frontier spirit' of
the pioneers in the old West. Furthermore, it is a fascinating reflection of
white American attitudes in the 60s as the country (or parts of it) started
to wake up to liberal ideas. Unfortunately, as time has passed, the new
series have folded up into a kind of politically correct self parody but it
remains interesting viewing, and also is rare amongst TV programmes in
portraying a generally positive view of an essentially socialist future. I
think that the world is generally better off with Star Trek than without it,
but then I always was a sucker for Nurse Janice Rand's legs...
Did you know, by the way, that the first inter-racial kiss on American TV
was between Kirk and Uhuru, with Uhuru taking the lead? But that in order to
make it acceptable to TV chiefs, it had to be portrayed as the consequence
of alien mind control? There's enough material in this single episode about
attitudes to slavery, civil rights, feminism, cold war paranoia, (not to
mention dodgy mini skirts and the general unwiseness of wearing a red
t-shirt if you plan to spend time with Captain Kirk) for a whole conference.
By the way, what is a former native?
Tim
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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 10:51:13 +0200
From: P Van Schaik
To: blake@albion.com
Subject: Comment of inexperience -Reply
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In that `gross, unified way'? Why, surely it is blessed to see things in a
unified field. ? This might include seeing love as a verb -- as I think Blake
did when visualising Eternity. In Innocence, his male and female spirits
never cease mingling in the ardours of fiery love, interchanging, in their
intellectual sparring, all the ideas and images which create the varied
paradises of Eden. It is for these `wars' that Urthona forges the `golden
armour of Science' at his Eternal Forge in Eden. Pam
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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 10:44:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: TomD3456@aol.com
To: blake@albion.com
Subject: Re: the Spectre named Urthona
Message-Id: <970422104429_-233230681@emout19.mail.aol.com>
Steve-
Thanks for clarifying -- I agree.
--Tom Devine
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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 11:19:58 -0400
From: albright@world.std.com (R.H. Albright)
To: blake@albion.com
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Jim Watt:
Thanks for your comments on my post.
Maybe I had been looking too long at the "To the Deists" plate of
_Jerusalem_ that day, and wanted to throw it against the wall.
Or maybe I was annoyed by one of the Charlie quotes, that over-used snarl
of contempt about grand things necessarily being obscure and how making
things explicit to idiots is not the concern of Mr. Blake.
Of course if a fool were to continue his folly, he would become wise.
(Maybe, Mr. Blake. Maybe.) But then the next line says ("Marriage of Heaven
and Hell", plate 7), "Folly is the cloke of knavery." So why would I want
to continue down THAT path?
I then fell back upon one of my favorite Blake quotes:
"Folly is an endless maze,
Tangled roots perplex her ways,
How many have fallen there!"
---from "The Voice of the Ancient Bard" in both
_Songs of Innocence_ and _Songs of Experience_
The person to whom I addressed my remarks seemed blue, yet had accomplished
something good even as it was not without pain on his part. Where in Blake
do I find solace when I feel the same way? Jesus can do it for me,
sometimes, with "The Beatitudes".
I actually found a piece that does it for me, with Blake. But it depends on
my active interpretation of the piece, and not passively accepting what the
Tate Gallery says they think Blake meant. For one thing, an artist that
works on such a multiplicity of levels as Mr. Blake invites a multiplicity
of interpretations. For another, I like my interpretation BETTER than the
Tate's. The piece is called "Pity", but first I rename it "Compassion".
It's a watercolor/print. And this is what I see... at least... today...
(allotropic states, you know)
A woman, flat on her back with the blues, gives her child-like self that
had tried to do good in this world to another part of herself, that still
cares for both what she did and what she can do in the future. This part of
herself is in the sky, flying on horseback. And yet another part of herself
on horseback guards against the darkness of self-doubt on the other side.
Was this Blake's authorial intent with this painting? Should I worry that
Northrop Frye, on his first page of _Fearful Symmetry_, says that "...the
mere familiarity of some of the lyrics is no guarantee that they will not
be wrongly associated with their author"? This is on the same page where
Mr. Frye admits that he does not concern himself with Blake the visual
artist. Well, you can't *see* it all, can you, Mr. Frye. What IS it all,
anyway? And if people can't imaginatively reinvent tales like _Romeo and
Juliet_, which allowed Leonardo diCapra (sp?) to touch many of my teenage
friends even as many critics panned it, then... that's it. Old Fogyism.
Jesus loves me, that I know, because the Bible tells me so. And I don't buy
it. I'd rather be a tyger than a lamb. But that's just ME.
I like your quote, Jim:
>Jerusalem 55:60: "He who would do good to another, must do it in Minute
>Particulars / General Good is the plea of the scoundrel hypocrite &
>flatterer: / For Art & Science cannot exist but in minutely organized
>particulars.
>
>Say it: MIN - UTE PAR TIC U LAR S. It feels good because it is good.
Hope I said it in minute particulars instead of just vague pronouncements,
today..........
-Randall Albright
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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 10:39:30 -0500 (EST)
From: WATT
To: Blake@albion.com
Subject: Re: 'Old' & 'New'
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Dear Gloudina: Remember that "Los is by mortals (that's us) nam'd Time
Enitharmon is nam'd Space/ But they depict him bald & aged who is
eternal youth" [Milton 24 (26):68-69) In other words, this argument about
old and young is another in a series of spectrous delusions perpetuated
by the God of this world (Renegade Urizen/Satan) and his war-shippers
to maintain corporeal and suppress spiritual strife. In fact we are all
building Jerusalem exactly where we are because where we are in all its
minute particulars is exactly where we need to be. Alas for the sons and
daughters of Albion who wander perpetually from place to place
pretending (to themselves and to the world) that they are seeking
Jerusalem to free her. The Persian poet, Rumi, has some good advice
for them:
Even if you don't know what you want,
Buy SOMETHING, to be part of the exchanging flow.
Start a huge, foolish project,
Like Noah.
It makes absolutely no difference
what people think of you.
It is the flow which is eternally young --and it is in it & in our connection with it
that we discover the moment in every day that connects to eternity, the
one that Satan and his watch fiends can never discover.
Jim Watt, Indianapolis, IN
p.s. it makes all the difference in the world what peopleFEEL of you!
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Date: Mon, 14 Apr 97 19:19:07 +0100 ( + )
From: Paul Tarry
To: Ib Johansen
Subject: visions
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hi,
The Visions Of the Daughters of Albion is available in full colour in:
Volume 3 of The Blake Trust/ Tate Gallery series The Illuminated
Blake under the title "The Early Illuminated Books" edited by M.
Eaves, R. Essick and J. Viscomi. This wonderful book was published
here in the U.K. in 1993 and should still be readily available.
Happy hunting!
Paul
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Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 15:23:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alexander Gourlay
To: Ib Johansen
Subject: re: visions of the daughters of albion
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Dear Prof. Johansen,
VDA is indeed out of print -- I proposed a facsimile to Dover,
which does them imexpensively, but they thought that even VDA and Thel
together had too few pages to interest them (!). But you can get a very
good reproduction of VDA and several other early prophecies in volume 3
of the new series of Blake Trust facsimiles, published by the Tate
Gallery and Princeton University Press -- it's titled "The Early Illuminated
Books" and edited by Morris Eaves, Joseph Viscomi, and Robert Essick. It
costs about $75 in the US, but it is subsidized by various entities and
might be hard to get outside of the US or UK.
Hope this helps,
Sandy Gourlay
Rhode Island School of Design
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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 15:37:35 -0700
From: "Charlie K."
To: blake@albion.com
Subject: Quote
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[from 'Fearful Symmetry' by Northrop Frye, pg. 210]
As soon as we begin to think of the relation of Orc to Urizen, it
becomes impossible to maintain them as separate principles. If Orc
represents the reviving force of a new cycle, whether of dawn or
spring or history, he must grow old and die at the end of that
cycle. Urizen must eventually gain the mastery over Orc, but such a
Urizen cannot be another power but Orc himself, grown old.
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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 15:51:45 -0700
From: "Charlie K."
To: blake@albion.com
Subject: Quote
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[more from Frye's 'Fearful Symmetry']
But as Orc stiffens into Urizen, it becomes manifest that the world
is so constituted that no cause can triumph within it and still
preserve its imaginative integrity. The imagination is mental, and
it never has a preponderance of physical force on its side:
The Whole Creation Groans to be deliver'd; there will always
be as many Hypocrites born as Honest Men, & they will always
have superior Power in Mortal Things. You cannot have
Liberty in this World without what you call Moral Virtue, &
you cannot have Moral Virtue without the Slavery of that
half of the Human Race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
[....]
No revolution which falls short of a complete apocalypse and
transfiguration of the world into Paradise can give us the eternal
youth it symbolizes.
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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 15:57:25 -0700
From: "Charlie K."
To: blake@albion.com
Subject: Quote
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[last one for today... again from Frye (pg. 219)... guess what I was
reading at school today...]
The rational "Deism" latent in Shelley, the belief in the future of
humanity rather than the eternity of a divine Man...
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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 20:42:06 -0700
From: "Charlie K."
To: blake@albion.com
Subject: Quote
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[ok, so not the 'last one'... this one's from Blake's own pen...]
Superstition has been long a bug bear by reason of its being united
with hypocrisy. but let them be fairly seperated & then superstition
will be honest feeling & God who loves all honest men. will lead the
poor enthusiast in the paths of holiness
[from Blake's 'Annotations to Lavater', which is a fantastic thing...
both Lavater's Aphorisms & Blake's comments... the above comes from
#605. Here are a few more...]
Lavater writes: "Whatever is visible is the vessel or veil of the
invisible past, present, future - as man penetrates to this more, or
perceives it less, he raises or depresses his dignity of being."
Blake responds: "A vision of the Eternal Now -"
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Lavater writes: "He, who adores an impersonal God, has none; and,
without guide or rudder, launches on an immense abyss that first
absorbs his powers, and next himself."
Blake responds: "Most superlatively beautiful & Most affectionatly
Holy & pure would to God that all men would consider it"
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Lavater writes: "You promise as you speak."
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Lavater writes: "Keep him at least three paces distant who hates
bread, music, and the laugh of a child."
Blake responds: "the best in the book"
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Lavater writes: "Who are the saints of humanity? those whom
perpetual habits of goodness and of grandeur have made nearly
unconscious that what they do is good or grand - heroes with
infantine simplicity."
Blake responds: "this is heavenly"
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Blake writes: "Those who are offended with any thing in this book
would be offended with the innocence of a child & for the same
reason. because it reproaches him with the errors of acquired folly."
[Lavater's book was published in London in the summer of 1788]
"The object of your love is your God." -- Lavater
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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 10:17:03 +0200
From: P Van Schaik
To: Blake@albion.com, Watt@butler.edu
Subject: Re: 'Old' & 'New' -Reply
Message-Id:
Dear Jim, I found your posting not only relevant to Blake, but inspiring in
itself and I think there are many of us who have literally experienced the
truth of what you say in it. First, to keep in the flow is so much more fun
than stepping out of it, as once on dry land one seems so alone again
and static, being deprived of the unexpected, and the perpetual
movement and dance of everything else one encounters. Perhaps
staying in the flow is bathing in the River of Life, except that it often
means energetic outward flow of love to all that is happening around
one, rather than simply floating on one's back, or getting lost or wrapped
in solitary ego-bound thought. Most of all, I think what you said has a
bearing on the ludic and absurd elements of life, which really give it
colour and vitality and which most religions have forgotten to inculcate in
followers. I mean, buying what ever, just to keep the exchange going,
seems silly, but is really far more profound than being told that one
should give in order to receive. Perhaps one could relate all this to
Blake's perception that:
Wisdom is sold in the desolate market place
Where none come to buy.
If it were seen by more people that it is fun to become wise, more might
venture there and the market place would be full of laughter.... rather like
the ale-house, full of good cheer that Blake imagined in place of the cold
Church pews.
Pam
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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 10:33:05 +0200
From: P Van Schaik
To: blake@albion.com, chaz@take3soft.com
Subject: Quote -Reply
Message-Id:
Thanks Charlie for a true feast of pertinent wisdom and enthusiastic
delight in the truth from Blake, Lavater and you -- the words come
beaming through the waves of the net with the warm savour of the
Bread and Wine of Eternal Life which Blake associated with Poetic
Fancies. Pam
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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 18:24:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: bouwer
To: blake@albion.com
Subject: Of war and strategies
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Steve Perry, what you wanted to say was already
clear the first time. Sorry I am late responding to
your post, because the matter is important to me.You
are right. The work of building Golgonooza would not
be going on but for the war raging around it. Thank
you for sending me back to study the causes of that
war, the progression of the war and the strategies
of the war.
Steve Perry さんは書きました：
>TomD3456@aol.com wrote:
>>
>> Steve-
>> Umm ... Huh? I don't really understand what you're trying to say. Want
to
>> run that by us again?
>>
>
>Gloudina had said:
>> I would also like to think about how his Spectre helps Los
>> in the building of Golgonooza.
>
>and I responded:
>>Blake and Los are certainly not losing anything in their tasks
>>by not having the reasoning power afforded by their
>>respective Spectres. In that the drama is post-lapsarian,
>>there is a sort of hegelian dialectic going on here; the work of
>>Golgonooza would not go on lest for the war over which it
>>were raised. Likewise, the tools of the Urizenic world, the
>>metals, the forge, the hammer, the brush and awl are all part
>>of the science wrought by the fall.
>
>I can see your point, I guess the flu bug I was fighting last week
>wasn't only affecting me physically.
>
>My point was that the spectres and for that matter the emanations
>(thanks for your illuminating post Pam) are active participants in the
>creation of Golgonooza, if not only by the disharmony that they create.
>In that sense I was suggesting that this whole process seems somewhat
>Hegelian. I think that Los' Spectre, who may be self doubt or as you
>suggest the absence of live or perhaps the accuser drives Los to create
>materialize his image of eternity and divinity, which is the building of
>Golgonooza. Finally, I was also saying that even the tools created by
>the specrtes of Urizen, science and the instruments of war, end up being
>used in the creation of Golgonooza.
When I want a fresh point of view, I often go back to
"The Valley of Vision" by Peter Fisher. Fisher drowned in
1958 at the age of 40 in a boating accident in Lake Ontario
near Kingston. At his death he was head of the English
Department at the Royal Military College of Canada in the
city of Kingston. According to Northrop Frye, who edited
his book after his death, he was a soldier with a fine
military record, keenly interested in the theory of strategy,
wrote papers on the campaigns of Alexander the Great, and
was ready to discuss military theory from Sun-Tzu Wu to
Clausewitz.
To Fisher, the Spectre is "the rational product of memory and
sensation, forming the basis of the individual's reasonable view
of experience... and it tends to obscure the faculty which
experiences.. It becomes the identification of the individual with
his habits and tastes, his opinions and beliefs, his name and his
reputation, and most of all, with his environment and conditions.."
(p 213).What an adversary! And what need to heed Blake when he
points out that in the battle for the imagination, one must enlist
the help of the Spectre. The Spectre needs to be on your side.
Gloudina Bouwer
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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 20:56:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ralph Dumain
To: blake@albion.com
Subject: STEDMAN IN FICTION: BLAKE SIGHTINGS
Message-Id: <199704240356.UAA03986@igc2.igc.apc.org>
As we know, Blake was one of the engravers who illustrated John
Stedman's NARRATIVE OF A FIVE YEARS' EXPEDITION AGAINST THE
REVOLTED NEGROES OF SURINAM. The relationship between Stedman and
the slave Joanna was turned into a novel, STEDMAN AND JOANNA -- A
LOVE IN BONDAGE by Beryl Gilroy (mother of Paul Gilroy, author of
THE BLACK ATLANTIC). The original story of Stedman and this
novelization are reviewed by S.J. Wiseman, appearing along with a
picture of an engraving of Joanna (which looks like Blake's work)
in the journal WASAFIRI, no. 19, Summer 1994, pp. 74-75.
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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 20:54:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ralph Dumain
To: blake@albion.com
Subject: BLAKE SIGHTINGS: WILSON HARRIS AGAIN
Message-Id: <199704240354.UAA03895@igc2.igc.apc.org>
"Each day is a voyage into forbidden realms, a conversation with
messengers of deity, with angels, in the Blakeian sense. Each day
is a reckoning with veils or densities that lie between us and a
God with whom we have at times a sensation of inner rapport, or of
whom we may have some inner gnosis or knowledge, but who remains
unfathomable and beyond description; who seems to imply at times
our orphaned predicament."
-- Wilson Harris, address to The Temenos Academy in London, 7
Feb. 1994; printed as "Quetzalcoatl and the Smoking Mirror:
Reflections on Originality and Tradition" in WASAFIRI, no. 20,
Autumn 1994 (pp. 38-43), p. 43.
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