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“O Rose thou art sick.
The invisible worm
That flies in the night
In the howling storm:

Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy:
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.“

My day off: done some gardening (unusual behaviour!), now sitting in the shade out of the sun 🌞🌡️🥵 with a light lunch, some Blake poetry and Bowie's Hunky Dory.
I have to admit that my choice of reading was influenced by an excellent #BookmarkMatching opportunity🔖🌹😊

To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.

William Blake was fascinating and strange artist, poet and thinker. John Higgs, the author, is very interested in all aspects of Blake, including Blake's weirdest and most arcane, where he spends a whole lot of this book. Not a perfect book, but well done. Fun, fascinating, insightful stuff.

My current audiobook. I started this past week. The author, John Higgs, seems like a character, with many talents. He‘s really into and excited about the psychology of Blake, who was very much interested in his own vision and the visual world of his own mind. It‘s been fun. I read some Blake poetry along with this, and he has really added to my (still limited) understanding.

Random book from our home library:

📖 Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Illustrated Throughout in Full Colour) by William Blake

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"O Rose thou art sick.
The invisible worm.
That flies in the night
In the howling storm:

Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy;
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy."

- The Sick Rose

I like faded flowers, though these are starting to get a bit Miss Haversham, so I should probably throw them out now ?

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