blake's apprenticeship - a photo on Flickriver

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Thanks to Angela (ang156) for the title prompt (see below in comments). I'm not sure what she meant... perhaps a reference to the significant amount of time that Blake, as apprentice to James Basire, spent in the reverential space of Westminster Abbey... and perhaps this image suggests that the reverential space of the reader is like unto that? A fitting allusion given Sherrie's current focus on writing that has definitely been shaped by her extensive reading.
My mind goes in a somewhat different equally oblique direction: One of our (Sherrie's and mine) favorite authors is the Japanese writer Kenzaburō Ōe. Ōe's writing frequently incorporates his life / experience with his "disabled" son Hikari in a way that has been inspiring to both Sherrie and myself. Ōe frequently references William Blake in his writing, most clearly in the book of his that I most like Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!. So, if one thinks of Blake's apprenticeship as centered in and inspired by a reverential space, that seems somewhat metaphoric of the reverential "space" that Hikari has provided for Kenzaburō Ōe and Temma has provided for us.

Taken on: April 28, 2005

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