The Bridge of Sighs

[Guest guest]

Another dead day under a baneful sky,

and I am again caught-up in the dry doldrums.

I have been in communion with that old dead poet,

you know the guy, Blake for goodness sake.

And he says:---- " The world of imagination is the world

of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we go after

the death of the vegetated body.

In the Artists view of Adam & Eve, and descending beneath

( the descending generating stream ) is the seat of the harlot,

named Mystery, ( self-conscious life ), in Revelation. She or

(mystery ) is sized by two beings ( life & death ), each with

three heads; they represent vegetative existence. As it is written

in Revelation, they strip her naked and burn her with fire.

( ie, death strips her naked and the passions of the self-conscious

life burns her as with fire ) It represents the eternal consumption of

vegetable life and death -------( the life and death of the merely self-

conscious ) with its lusts. The wreathed torches in their hands or

( the hands of life & death ) represent eternal fire, which is the fire

of generation or vegetation; it is an eternal consummation.

Those who are blessed with imaginative vision see this eternal

female, and tremble at what others fear not; while they laugh at

what others fear.

Oh my dear, have no fear, Mother is near and will cheer you with a

Southern lullaby----Hush little baby dont you cry, your Pappa's rich

and your Ma is good-looking---- ah! what more could you ask for?

Now I need to take a Nap~~~``

Regards

S.C.

Good old Blake

born 1757---died 1827

I wasn' t around then--I dont think?