This is an example of how language or symbolic signifiers alter the lived experience more than the lived experience does simply to the real. Does this mean that as one grows up and is exposed to more of the symbolic world and language, one is indulged more in the phantasy and is further from accessing the "real"?

She lied, but she is an angel. But to be honest is a devil, like Iago?

Advising against innocence, against not knowing, although Iago's advice that gives Othello a taste of new information is really what leads to his downfall.

Sort of parallels to the Little Black Boy in Blake, where being close to the sun = dark skin, = the absence of experience and dark desires, closer to God.

The dirty satisfaction of knowing is what tears everything down. The desire of knowing the full truth once it has been handed a little to you -- curiosity kills the cat. In this way Iago is the fruit of TEMPTATION!

Experience, knowing, knowledge is hell, torture, and destroys what we call happiness, because all happiness is is delusion

Blaming the outside object, in fact, Jesus's blood for his downfall. No, Iago and Jesus' blood only made him.more honest and "beast-like", living. Innocent.

Touches on innocence, free will and lack of constraint, lack of morality, lack of humanity == Blake's innocence == protection from Iago

Pride has to do with morality of the Church. What aids their downfall is morality. This has ties to Blake, how religion is a restriction of freedom and true innocence.

Der Sturm Otis, der die Küste bei Acapulco verwüstet hat, hat sich in nur einem Tag von einem tropischen Sturm zu einem Hurrikan der Kategorie 5 entwickelt. Es ist noch unklar worauf dieser enorme Gewinn an Intensität zurückgeht. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/world/americas/hurricane-otis-mexico-intensity-surprise.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2N3l3440TE

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  • William Blake Poem
    • The Divine Image
      • To Mercy, pity, peace and love all pray in their distress and in these virtues of delight return their thankfulness
      • when push comes to shove as they say in English
      • when you're up against the wall when you're in an extreme situation
        • someone's going to hit you and what do you do? Mercy Mercy you just say it or
        • you see someone else, they're about to hit someone and you say for pity's sake don't do that or
        • you find somebody very, very attractive and you feel this love right?
      • that's why he says
        • love the human form Divine
        • mercy has a human heart
        • pity a human face
        • love the human form Divine
      • these things are actually almost spontaneous intuitive things that happen and what does it mean?
        • they come from the biosphere
        • they come from your body
        • they come from evolution
      • it's very, very clear for example that art and language ritual comes from at least as far back as primates

Blake, Vernon. Relation in Art: Being a Suggested Scheme of Art Criticism, with Which Is Incorporated a Sketch of a Hypothetic Philosophy of Relation. Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1925. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Relation_in_Art/BcAgAAAAMAAJ?hl=en

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"Relation in Art" by Vernon Blake (1925), because it put art criticism on a quasi-scientific footing, articulated what was great about the art of all epochs (including the Greeks), and intelligently criticised the decline of art in the 20th century.

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Vernon Blake, in a posthumous article in the CTC Gazette from July 1930, wrote a description of a bicycle with balloon tires and small gears, which is now considered the first mountain bike.

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Interesting quote (direct attribution?) particularly within the context of commonplace books.

The French side of Mr. Blake, as he characterizes his own logical arguments, takes the dominant place in his mind. Maybe there is a quantitative indicator for him switching among his German, French, and English side.

Not quite sure if this place exists in real life, but I think Collins using this name for the specific scene with Betteredge, Spearman, and Blake was brilliant. The site itself foreshadows a sense of frightening thoughts and shocking news--the kind of conversation Betteredge would have with the two characters.

divine to the utmost

Blake's interpretation of this scene

Ezra Jennings expressed his yearning for human sympathy and his admiration for Mr.Franklin here. It appeared to me that nearly every character of the novel had some reason to adore Mr.Franklin. The peculiarity of Jennings is that he had long been plagued by distrust and dwelt in solitude. This and the impending death painted his affection towards Franklin rather melancholy, since this affection was intertwined with his crave for youth, riches, health, etc., all of which he had never, and probably would never have, an opportunity, to possess.

Franklin's resolution to solve the mystery about the Moonstone was taken to a higher level. Previously, he was only piqued by the mystery solely because it can help him restore his relationship with Miss Rachel, but here, as he confessed, the obstinate German side of him, despite him claiming that it was merely the conjecture of Mr.Betteredge, took over. What is fascinating is that in this part of Franklin's narrative, he seemed to profess his determination quite a lot. Perhaps we could run a similar word detection and plot the dispersion of it, to discover how frequently he used words related to determination.