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usurpation of the structure of Eternity, then, is related to the fact that elements of coherence and overlap in Eternity in such a way that the initial Urizenic drive is able to abstract the perspective of permanence from the total scheme of interconnections, and, once abstracted and drawn out, this perspective becomes a constitutive principle of reality which can be divided into functions predicable of both coherence and identity (p. 165). But whatever difficulty one has with this far transcends any irony at Ault's expense. True, near the book's conclusion there is a reading of Mental Traveller simply amazing in its opaque complexity-replete with diagrams and tables dripping jargon-but, while this is not the Blake I am interested in reading, a number of Ault's conceptual realizations of the myth are thought provoking. His machine may seem grotesque, like one of those cast-iron monsters one sees in Victorian collections, but it works, making solid noises, and I'm sure I will find myself referring to some of the things Ault has to say about emanation or Beulah repeatedly. And so, finally, I find myself wanting not to summarize my experience of this extraordinary book, as if I were some kind of ideal reader, but to pass it along to other readers as a perhaps useful technology. No more than its subject has been will this study prove generally interesting, but so be it. The cacophony and intellectual toughness of Ault's pages may suggest Blake to someone. What more could one want ?
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