Mike and Community:
The article "Fractal Fantasies of Transformation: William Blake, Michael Moorcock, and the Utilities of Mythographic Shamanism" has just been published in Extrapolation (Vol. 45, No. 4).
The article compares William Blake's epics and the Scond Ether Trilogy as a point of departure for examining the possibilities for mythographic shamanism and various Miltonic and Wittgensteinian correlatives.
The article drops some rather neat bombs. The first is the "Milton Bomb" in the middle of page 423. The second, the "Blake-Moorcock Bomb" is dropped at the top of page 427.
The article is based on a paper I gave at Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's Gothic revival mansion outside London (now St. Mary's College). I read the paper in Walpole's library, which is an appropriate enough place to talk about MM and Blake, eh?
Last I heard the conference director was preparing a collection of papers read at the conference (which was titled "Blake and the Popular") to be published by Palgrave. I rather suspect my "Milton Bomb" lead the editorial staff to reject my paper for the anthology. The "Blake-Moorcock Bomb" probably jostled them a bit too, or so it would seem from their smokey "reader's report". My Blake is not necessarily their Blake. Ah well, truth must take precedence over academic opportunity, I always say. And besides, I have a few other rabbits to pull out of my hat: I certainly don't need to rely on Blake's . . . what's the word--"importance" tra la . . . to form the astral plane over which I shall spread the checker table cloth of my cosmic reputation. I wasn't there to advace the Blake industry, I was there as a man speaking to other men, to profess my knowledge of Willam Blake and Michael Moorcock!
Extrapolation can be found in most research collections. The librarians should be putting it out as we speak. Web site at:
http://fp.dl.kent.edu/extrap/
I conclude with some images of Strawberry Hill.
Peace and Good Health,
Carter Kaplan

The article "Fractal Fantasies of Transformation: William Blake, Michael Moorcock, and the Utilities of Mythographic Shamanism" has just been published in Extrapolation (Vol. 45, No. 4).
The article compares William Blake's epics and the Scond Ether Trilogy as a point of departure for examining the possibilities for mythographic shamanism and various Miltonic and Wittgensteinian correlatives.
The article drops some rather neat bombs. The first is the "Milton Bomb" in the middle of page 423. The second, the "Blake-Moorcock Bomb" is dropped at the top of page 427.
The article is based on a paper I gave at Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's Gothic revival mansion outside London (now St. Mary's College). I read the paper in Walpole's library, which is an appropriate enough place to talk about MM and Blake, eh?
Last I heard the conference director was preparing a collection of papers read at the conference (which was titled "Blake and the Popular") to be published by Palgrave. I rather suspect my "Milton Bomb" lead the editorial staff to reject my paper for the anthology. The "Blake-Moorcock Bomb" probably jostled them a bit too, or so it would seem from their smokey "reader's report". My Blake is not necessarily their Blake. Ah well, truth must take precedence over academic opportunity, I always say. And besides, I have a few other rabbits to pull out of my hat: I certainly don't need to rely on Blake's . . . what's the word--"importance" tra la . . . to form the astral plane over which I shall spread the checker table cloth of my cosmic reputation. I wasn't there to advace the Blake industry, I was there as a man speaking to other men, to profess my knowledge of Willam Blake and Michael Moorcock!
Extrapolation can be found in most research collections. The librarians should be putting it out as we speak. Web site at:
http://fp.dl.kent.edu/extrap/
I conclude with some images of Strawberry Hill.
Peace and Good Health,
Carter Kaplan


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