Willow ,'Storyteller'
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
F: Dante (What circle of Hell will THIS put you in, Bitch?!), C: William Blake, M: John Milton (C'Mon John, you know you liked Satan better a LITTLE bit? Right? C'mon, tell me!)
You'd chuck Blake? What, are you nuts? You chuck Milton. You always chuck Milton.
You'd chuck Blake? What, are you nuts? You chuck Milton. You always chuck Milton.
My copy of Paradise Lost is wee and tiny and belonged to my Great-Grandmother Esme, so Milton is not ALWAYS to be chucked.
Blake, OTOH, is still TOTALLY the M in that grouping.
Now, make it F/C/M Donne, Milton, Blake, and we might have a wee problem. (F Donne? M Blake? F Blake? M Donne? Though I think perhaps I need to swap out poor Milty, who continues to get chucked.)
I don't know about M- Blake. Can we say crazier than a bag of rubber hammers?
Gotta at least bang the bag of rubber hammers - with the Scottish accent, it is a biological imperative.
I've never been a big Blake fan, for some reason. I probably haven't given him enough of a chance. I've never been huge on poetry.
I kind of love you guys.
I too have to admit that I love Blake. He's totally a Marry. His writing may have been dense and possibly indicating bat-shit-craziness, but his illustrations, particularly the illuminated prints, indicate he was visionary in the truest sense.
Also, his take on divinity, that the true Divinity would never be punitive and malicious (so unlike Dante), is the most sensical of all of them.
And, finally, he's also a Marry because when his wife couldn't conceive and the other Swedenborgians suggested they get a surrogate or concubine as would be acceptable in Swedenborgian rules, he didn't because his wife didn't want him to.
And, he taught her to read and become an illustrator too.
Blake's a keeper.
to me, Dante is always a chucker.
For the record, Blake was happily married and had lots of lusty sex with his wife.
eta: oops, Kat already updated that record with Blake's M-ness.
And, with that list, there are plenty of problems (Dante was a bitter exile, Milton's blindness) that might be deciding factors.
I feel so ignorant, even from just skimming in this thread.
[Edit: both in popular culture and in the more traditional classic one. The most I can get to is guess which name belongs to which period. I hope.]