Blake

Proverbs of Hell: I laughed and I reflected. These read to me like a bunch of "one liners". "The cistern contains: the fountain overflows". Is this about polarity? The Yin/Yang dynamic seems to be him evening out his mind. For this there is that. "The most sublime act is to set another before you." This is parenting. We are no longer exclusively "me" because "me" is now "we". Why does he title this Proverbs of Hell? Most of these phrases are so beautiful they can't be hell. My favorite is "Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without Improvement are roads of Genius". Society has often looked at the "new idea" as being totally absurd. Without those that are absurd we would not have the inventions we have today but are the fine tuned inventions really the best thing for us? "Where man is not, nature is barren." This comes from a man who knows that men have a purpose. I could not imagine for the centuries past how hard it must have been for males to know that there was a bonified reason for their existance. If humans were not able to figure out that it is a man's sperm that impregnates a woman, would men still feel like "Why am I here, when females have babies and we don't"? As I keep writing I am beginning to understand Blake's Proverbs of Hell title.