27 August 2009

Blake

When B and L were here, they got us the best thing ever: a book of all of William Blake's illuminated plates. Complete: everything he ever did. A most beautiful book, an adult's book. And printed very, very well. Has me thinking about getting some more ink done. As I told B, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell was one of the first books that got me thinking about what it is that I think about now and was one of the first causes in a string of causes which led me away from what was my most likely reality in which I would have been a missionary to another reality.

This is one that I like: