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Post by stuart on Feb 6, 2005 14:22:02 GMT
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Feb 8, 2005 13:14:13 GMT
Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.
Jim Morrison Are not the joys of morning sweeter
Than the joys of night
And are the vigorous joys of youth
Ashaméd of the light?
I like this bit of Blake.... 
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Post by ensenada on Feb 8, 2005 16:34:19 GMT
blake was pretty cool, not surprised jim liked him!  |
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Post by jym on Feb 8, 2005 18:36:58 GMT
blake was pretty cool, not surprised jim liked him! Blake was a walking visionary, he couldn't walk to town without talking to angels.  |
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Post by wyldlizardqueen on Feb 9, 2005 4:32:10 GMT
Blake was a walking visionary, he couldn't walk to town without talking to angels. I Second That:)!!! |
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Post by ensenada on Feb 14, 2005 11:11:45 GMT
so whats the doors of percetion about? why did jim love it so much? is it a work of fiction or philosophy? i need to get my hands on it.........
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Post by stuart on Feb 14, 2005 11:36:10 GMT
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Post by ensenada on Feb 14, 2005 15:16:38 GMT
cheers stu. well i didnt know it was about this:
Synopsis
In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescaline, sat down and waited to see what would happen. Huxley described his experience in 'The Doors of Perception' and its sequel 'Heaven and Hell'. This joint volume has a foreword by J.G. Ballard.
He took drugs and waited for the effects, cool! lol
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Post by weiland on Jun 24, 2005 22:13:31 GMT
The Tiger
TIGER, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?
And what shoulder and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand and what dread feet?
What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? What dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
When the stars threw down their spears,
And water'd heaven with their tears,
Did He smile His work to see?
Did He who made the lamb make thee?
Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
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Ahh... William Blake... ;D
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Post by weiland on Jun 24, 2005 22:15:11 GMT
The qoute origins from "The marriage between heaven and hell" by William Blake, by the way.... "If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narow chinks of his cavern." www.levity.com/alchemy/blake_ma.html |
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Post by mywildlove4371 on Jul 11, 2005 15:34:51 GMT
never read much blake... I can see his influences in jims writing. for sure.. the whole taking mescaline and then waiting to see what the effects are, Like jim taking the carton of rotting fish on the over crowded bus in the hottest part of the summer, just see get the reaction.. he later wrote in his book.. the answer disgust and anger!!
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Post by thebadcowboy on Jul 11, 2005 19:23:18 GMT
just started reading blake for the first time today
i find it cool so far
but some of it a lil sickly sweet......
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Post by thebadcowboy on Jul 12, 2005 23:01:07 GMT
getting better......
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Post by stuart on Jul 12, 2005 23:26:30 GMT
I was reading a little bit of blake the night actually, just some light reading
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Post by eressie on Jul 13, 2005 12:11:12 GMT
You call blake light reading?! May I ask what you concider to be heavy then? |
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Post by stuart on Jul 13, 2005 12:13:57 GMT
No!! i didnt mean BLAKE himself is light reading!!! i was meaning i was just skimming through!! the poem"America" is good, read that one last night
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Post by eressie on Jul 13, 2005 12:32:01 GMT
Ah, then I understand what you mean! |
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Post by stuart on Jul 13, 2005 12:37:14 GMT
I gather you misunderstood what i meant then monica?! A good book to read about jim and another poet rimbaud"rebel as poet" by wallace fowlie, that's pretty good esp wallace's journal at the start imo.
I've got the complete poems of blake book and very slowly working my way through it lo.
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Post by eressie on Jul 13, 2005 15:28:37 GMT
I have the complete works of Blake as well, that´s why I wondered...light reading...that book is HUGE!
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Post by stuart on Jul 13, 2005 15:38:32 GMT
What Blake stuff do you like monica? i quite like"The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"(has THAT great line "The Road Of Excess leads to the Palace of Wisdom" in it!) and that one i mentioned earlier"America" is good.
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