8 Jul
2001
8 Jul
'01
3 a.m.
Jacqui asked:
<Anyone got it to hand - the only bits I can remember are the 'chariots of fire' (hence the film), the bows of gold and 'I will not cease from mental fight until I have built Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land' - any connection with the London?>
I've always got Blake to hand, Jacqui (only the book, alas):
In every cry of every Man, In every Infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.
(from the poem called 'London')
Now I wonder if it would be possible to disregard some 50 years of difference in age, and write a story of an encounter between W.Blake and Byron as some kind of R.Blake and Avon avatars?
N.