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Two video-poems, 'Bones' and 'Season of Affliction'

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normanball wrote:Two video-poems, 'Bones' and 'Season of Affliction'

Now "Season of Affliction" I heard clearly. Very cool! Thanks.

And moreover, it took me on a trip to discover Urizen which introduced me to William Blake, which took me to "America a Prophecy" which I didn't understand much at all except that Jefferson was missing!

But then not missing, because Orc could only be Jefferson, whose submitted national motto was "REBELLION TO TYRANTS IS OBEDIENCE TO GOD". Which was rejected.

These Blake writings are all new things to me, and I'm reading summaries of other's opinions to catch up on the gist of Blake's gist.

Urizen's are all over the place - We're all boxed into the kingdoms of our individual reason - when Orc and Urizen get together, Ourizen prevails and maybe we'll get somewhere.

So many metaphors, so little time. :-)

Casey

Casey:

I'm happy to help spark you along a good scavenger hunt. Blake's a mandatory read for sure. After that, you may want to track down fellow mystic Jakob Boehme who was a very significant Blake influence.

take care
norm

I will look him up too. Our whole history is so amazing and so "dual".

One thing is clear, Orc was a British subject. Revolution comes from within, not from without. And this time King George needs to turncoat, but he probably already is.

To the Poets, who took on the Great Oz and slew him with the sword and won. To Miss Ellen Gould Harmon, the little wounded Jewish girl who believes in Jesus, who took on the Poets and won. To our Father in heaven, who never loses!

Let's see, September, 2001 minus 150 years. What happened in September, 1851 that FINALLY loosed those fearsome locusts from the bottomless pit? There were three. Swords beaten into plowshares, spears into pruning hooks, let's do it.

And this is my third time around here. I'm off to look up Jakob Boehme.

Thank you, everybody... It's going to be so cool.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Norman Ball. :-)

Casey