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Quarle’s
Worm, like Donne’s
Flea and Bataille's boy,
(his book)
My Mother * (her son's author)
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 Oh No
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No More . .
No
No
No More
More more
without no more...
Oh No
I
need a scanner
OH
A
digital
camera
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for my CGI
interface
Definitive lack shakes More
the
I to be spoken
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The relationship between
Blake and Quarles . Blake's Gates of Paradise in 1793 (GP)
borrows the emblem design concept from Quarles's Emblemes.
Blake's design frames a printed figure in the center of the page surrounded
by accompanying text. A page from Quarles's Emblemes
and Blake's Notebook are
displayed.
One selected pages is a
drawing of a boy in a cage, an allegory for the spirit encased in the
body. DaVinci's drawing of a embryo in an eggshell suggest a similar
image while evoking the metaphor of the mother. According to David
Erdman, Eeditor of Blake's Notebook, Blake borrowed the image of the boy in the cage as
well as the famous hastening traveler (with hat and staff) from Quarles's
Emblemes. The drawing from The Notebook of William Blake
(N77 & N23) is one of several studies of the boy in the cage.
Quarles, Francis. Facsimile Book Pages, 1793.
Emblemes, Divine and Moral (p
280 - 281;
Address to the Reader). 1635.
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William Blake, "Emblem 50"
(boy in cage), WB's Notebook, N77
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I have said
... to the worm
Thou art my Mother, & my Sister
William Blake's Notebook,
N45 -
Job in The Gates of Paradise
For Children or For the
Sexes," Emblem 16") 1793.
In the loveliest red
apple
there is hidden a worm .
Slowly, relentlessly, the worm
eats
the apple away.
Until there is nothing
left but the worm.
[aaaaa]
Henry Miller, The
World of Sex, p38, 1959.
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. . . but, again,
if we were to fail
to carry the light
to the very point where night falls, how should we
know ourselves to be as we are,
the offspring,
the effect of being
hurling itself
into horror?
of being leaping headlong into the sickening emptiness,
into the very nothingness
which at all costs being has got to avoid. . .
George Bataille,
Madame Edwarda, 143, 1941 & 1956
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Contact: Jeanie S. Dean
Revised:
12/01/04. |