” The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when he wrote of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devil’s party without knowing it ” – so wrote William Blake in 1868

THAT MANY OF US ENDURE IN THE CULTURE TO WHICH WE WERE BORN – A REAL LESSON IN FORGIVENESS BELIEVE YOU ME.

I arose, and sought for the mill, & there I found my Angel, who surprised, asked me how I escaped? I answer’d: ‘ All that we saw was owing to your metaphysics; for when you ran away, I found myself on a bank by moonlight hearing a harper, But now we have seen my eternal lot, shall I shew you yours?’ he laugh’d at my proposal. So the Angel said: ‘thy phantasy has imposed upon me, & thou oughtest to be ashamed.’ I answer’d: ‘we impose on one another, & it is but lost time to converse with you whose works are only Analytics.’ William Blake

UNGIRDED! GOOD WORD THAT! 15 AUGUST 2020 FAST OF THE UNGIRDING –

Apocalypse Now was honored with the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, where it premiered unfinished before it was finally released on 15 August 1979 by United Artists.

The Legacy of ‘Apocalypse Now’ https://filmschoolrejects.com/apocalypse-now-legacy/ via @OnePerfectShot

From today’s The Times an excellent article by Larushka Ivan-Zadeh

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/coup-53-uncovering-the-overthrow-of-irans-pm-that-britain-never-owned-up-to-cgdcr3mqt

Been following this story for many a decade! Shameful.

An interesting link with the iconic ‘Apocalypse Now’ – Taghi Amirani worked with Walter Murch, sound designer on F F Coppola’s masterpiece, and a three time Oscar winner.

Tomris Laffly writes: The most notable achievement of “Coup 53” is daring the viewer to imagine a different Middle East today — what would have happened had Mosaddegh (whom Amirani sees as a Gandhi-like figure for Iran) not been overthrown? What would a flourishing and fair democracy in the region mean for the future of the Middle East? The world would perhaps have been a different place, Amirani imagines, knowing that mankind will never live in that version of the globe.( 4 September 2019)

Larushka Ivan–Zadeh is Chief Film Critic at Metro, the UK’s most read daily newspaper. She is also a broadcaster who regularly appears across the BBC as well as Sky News.

There were approximately more than 580,000 bombing missions on Laos between 1964 and 1973, that’s one every eight minutes, every day, for NINE YEARS, making it the most bombed country on planet earth.

Replying to @wing_of_night and @CraigMurrayOrg

The USA dropped over 2 million tons of cluster bombs over Laos —more than all the bombs dropped during WW2 combined.

I HAVE TO IF I WANT TO KEEP UP WITH MY FUGITIVE STAG

Nietzsche’s poem ‘Writing with One’s Feet’ in The Gay Science (Fröhliche Wissenschaft):

Not with my hand alone I write:
My foot wants to participate.
Firm and free and bold, my feet
Run across the field – and sheet.

In his long narrative, “Milton”, Blake describes how the author of “Paradise Lost” returned from heaven and entered Blake’s foot in the form of a comet. Afterwards, the familiar world of the five senses turned into a shoe. Blake tied the shoe and walked with the Spirit of Poetry to the City of Art.

Milton actually entered Blake’s left tarsus bone!

But Milton entering my foot I saw in the nether/ Regions of the
Imagination also all men on Earth,/ And all in Heaven, saw in the nether regions of the Imagination.”

“To the despisers of the body will I speak” – Nietzsche

YES! THINKING FLESH!

    “Body am I, and soul” – thus speaks the child. And why should one not speak like children? But the awakened and knowing say: body am I en­tirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body. The body is a great reason, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a herd and a shepherd. An instrument of your body is also your little reason, my brother, which you call “spirit”- a little instrument and toy of your great reason. “I,” you say, and are proud of the word. But greater is that in which you do not wish to have faith-your body and its great reason: that does not say “I,” but does “I.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra No 4

Nietzsche regarded the idea of a body-independent soul or spirit as a philosophical, religious and moral-theological error. Accordingly, in a fragment from the summer of 1880, Nietzsche wrote: ‘I have always written my writings with all my body and life: I do not know what “purely spiritual” problems are.’

I had that realization many decades ago – the error that is a ‘purely spiritual ‘ problem. Hence, ‘The Fugitive Stag’ is my whole body … body-soul, soulbody …

Top quote from Nietzsche’s ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra’ – the second Dance

Song (59).

MAYBE ONE WORD THEN – ATROCIOUS! “OF A VERY POOR QUALITY”

Although the costumes were very colourful.

I like Stuart Driver’s comment in The Sunday Times best of all: “All the substance of a poppadom.”