Blake

Author: bbogle
Date: March 23, 2015

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Time’s livid final flame leaps and, in the following darkness, ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppling masonry.
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Compare this Blakean passage to Nestor, http://www.infiniteulysses.com/ulysses/24
Author: bbogle
Date: March 23, 2015

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I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppling masonry, and time one livid final flame.
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A Blakean vision destined to recur in Stephen's day, here in apocalyptic combination with the fall of Troy and of local autonomy to the encroaching Roman Empire (e.g., Pyrrhus). See also passage in Proteus http://www.infiniteulysses.com/ulysses/43 and, most dramatically, in Circe http://www.infiniteulysses.com/ulysses/542
Author: ryanshaw
Date: February 5, 2015

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Blake's wings of excess
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An allusion to two of the Devil's proverbs from Blake's "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell": http://goo.gl/CTwW0Z