October 16, 2005 - 9:58 p.m.

ODYSSEY
Now the sun arose and left the lovely mere, speeding to the
brazen heaven, to give light to the immortals and to mortal
men on the earth, the graingiver, and they reached Pylos,
the stablished castle of Neleus. 
 There the people were doing sacrifice on the sea shore, 
slaying black bulls without spot to the dark-haired god, the 
shaker of the earth. 
 Nine companies there were, and five hundred men sat in each, 
and in every company they held nine bulls ready to hand. 
 Just as they had tasted the inner parts, and were
burning the slices of the thighs on the altar to the god,
the others were bearing straight to land, and brailed up
the sails of the gallant ship, and moored her, and
themselves came forth.


PSALMS
69
My song will please the LORD more than oxen, more than 
bullocks with horns and hooves.
    "See, you lowly ones, and be glad; 
you who seek God, take heart!
    For the LORD hears the poor, 
does not spurn those in bondage.
    Let the heavens and the earth sing praise, 
the seas and all that moves therein!"


104
  Look at the sea, great and wide! 
  It teems with countless beings, living things both large 
and small.
  Here ships ply their course; Leviathan, your creature, plays.


..................
..it is absolutely forbidden to "make" a poem. They [ancient? 
semitic world]read the commandment in the Old Testament "Thou 
shalt not make a graven image" to mean that one should not 
"make" a work of art. A poem is, in this sense, an image. But 
one should pour forth what is felt to come from God and that 
one thing, the arrival of the voice, is the doctrine of 
inspiration.
..
 To Blake, thought and imagination were the only true reality, 
and the corporeal world was a "Satanic illusion" perpetrated 
through the senses of the fallen Man. When he speaks of seeing 
visions, then, he is referring to his imagination, where 
thoughts comprise true reality.
..
When writing Milton, Blake claimed that he wrote "from 
immediate dictation, twelve or sometimes twenty or thirty 
lines at a time, without premeditation, and even against my 
will..." (Blake 823)

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like a knife fight in a phone box

Pepys:
'...her child was torn to pieces by two doggs at Walthamstow 
this week, and is dead, which is very strange.'


    Wounded, I dangled on a wind-swept gallows
    For nine long days and nights,
    Impaled upon a spear, sacrificed to Odin,
    An offering, self to self
    Upon the Tree whose roots ascend to heaven 

Grant me now your ancient grace.

By wondrous tongue, and guided pen,
Bring the flown Muses back to men. 


hesiod?http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/Hesiod/works.html
.....................................
using art and memory to recapture and preserve
a civilization that is dying.





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