Wednesday, July 31, 2013

4550. SEE THE LIGHT

SEE THE LIGHT
See the light take on false standing, wash the world
with its windows of change - moving across the flatness,
all that we inhabit. The book falls open again, and here
is the page where I am. William Blake put it broadly -
'I must invent my own system, or be enslav'd by that
of another man.' There is no defining the glut of this
masterly time : we are oldest and youngest together;...

most modern and most archaic at once. Let us dream
of ten thousand things. All those strange sailors of old,
floating a'sea and screaming prayers to the Virgin, all
frightened of the flat world they knew, or thought to
know. 'The New World is round!' Wise explorers said,
to profoundly indifferent ears - and, once more,
William Blake put it so well - 'the world is a flat
plain of our own indifferent recognition, a poor
interpretation of everything we see.

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