Metamorphoses
I recall the first line of Ovid’s Metamorphoses as being “Now I will tell of things that change.” But I just looked it up, and in the first translation that Google offers, it’s “Of bodies chang’d to various forms, I … Continue reading
Tag Archives: William Blake
Jan Retro
No, that’s not a fictional character. It’s short for “January Retrospective.” What a month January was! Part 8 of “The Star Shard” is on stands now (the February issue of Cricket), and Emily Fiegenschuh’s illustrations just get better and better. … Continue reading
Golden String
The title (above) comes from the William Blake lines I quoted in the previous posting. Here they are once more: “I give you the end of a golden string Only wind it into a ball: It will lead you in … Continue reading
Poetry and the Imagination
“Poetry has this power of getting straight through to the deeper level. . . every time it happens, you become aware of the same splendid truth: that headache and the worry and the ‘thousand natural shocks the flesh is heir … Continue reading
Tanuki Encounter
So, did you hear the one about the scandal surrounding the zombie politician? –He was arrested for corruption. Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk! (That’s an original joke, by the way. It occurred to me this past week. Yes, it was inspired by … Continue reading
Blake on Improvement
I ran across this quote from William Blake: “Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.” For a stretch of about twelve or fifteen years, I read a couple of the popular writing trade … Continue reading