Veni Vidi Vado - I came, I saw, I ran away
I was having tea with the Dalai Lama the other day, and he gave me some pointed advice. "Quoting from the Simpsons is a lot like eating an orange," he said with a furrowed brow
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William Blake kinda fits in two ways. In one way, he was an extremely diehard Christian who viewed himself as a prophet, so that's one reason why the Anti-Christ might hate him. He was also kind of insane and scary, though, so the AC might also be carving the voodoo doll because he's afraid of him.
But yeah, it could have been anyone. Originally it was Franz Kakfa, but then I thought people might think there was actually some kind of metaphorical significance to it, so I changed it to William Blake. Which didn't help. I could have just gone with Tony Danza like I do for everything else, but I felt that would have been too obvious.
William Blake's poetry kicks the arse. His art's pretty cool too, though. And he did elaborate, really detailed pictures to go with all of his published poems, and all the pictures are more than just illustrations, they're all designed add to the meaning of the poems. But they weren't paintings, they were printed from engravings he did, because he was a professional engraver. And his poems are all in really cool cursive handwriting, but to print that he first had to engrave it into metal backwards. Which would be difficult.
And he wasn't famous in his own time. He was only really known by other cool poets like Samuel Coleridge and William Wordsworth, who both thought he was a genius, and they were like superstars of poetry at that time.
I'm very hungover. I'd like to vomit.
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Ah William Blake...brings back those good old English Lit year 12 memories hey Wes?
Oh by the way happy birthday for TODAY! you must feel oh so grown up now.
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The sad thing about him is that he had an entirely miserable life... he was totally dominated by his father, who wanted him to follow in his career, he was lonely, and he thought his writing sucked. He was never published in his life, actually - he kept everything to himself, maybe because of his crippling low self-esteem. On his deathbed (I think he died in his young middle-aged years, though I forget of what) he gave his stories to a friend and asked him to burn them all. Instead this friend submitted them to a publisher, where they were recognized as being The Best Short Stories Ever Written. Kafka is now considered among the greatest (or just The Greatest by many people) writer of the 20th century. And he died thinking he was a talentless loser.
Life is hilarious sometimes.
Thankyou for the Happy Birthday greetings, as well. I notice that the date on your post is the 10th of April, but your actual SMS was on the 11th. I remember because I found it amusing at the time for some reason.
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It's funny how someone can be "the Greatest" at something, yet I've never heard of them. There should be some mandatory education unit at school for such things. It makes me feel like I'm missing ouut somehow.
By the way, great party last night. I hope you're very hungover.
Love Jen
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Though I didn't get to bed until 8am, so I may well have just slept through it.
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