Blake day
William Blake is one of my heroes. A great post by V about him here: "Prophet of Freedom".P.s. More from Jams and Neil.
William Blake is one of my heroes. A great post by V about him here: "Prophet of Freedom".P.s. More from Jams and Neil.
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That's Bill Hicks and William Blake we share an affinity for. However, I am pathologically jealous of you! The fact you got to see Hicks live in the flesh eats away at me daily! This is something I sadly didn't get the chance to do.
At least you can't say you've seen Blake in the flesh...Or are you a visionary too!
One further connection, I did live in Sarf London for a little over a year too. Not far from Peckham Rye where Blake claimed to have seen angels in the trees.
Cheers. :)
http://www.nysun.com/article/67078
"...Blake was neither simple nor naïve. For him, the everyday world was only the thinnest band of a vast spectrum which extended from the smallest grain of sand to all eternity. To become Adam in the Garden — or, for that matter, Moses or Socrates — he needed only to open wide the eyes of his imagination."