Blake on screen?

[Thomas Vieth]

It sure does, but it's not Apollo but Helios.
Thomas

----Original Message Follows----
To:	MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu
cc:	pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: Blake on screen?
Date:	Wed, 21 May 1997 15:54:26 -0700
From:	Kyle Grieser <yuf at sequent.com>

> When Don L. quotes Blake:
> 
> >	Bring me my Bow of burning gold;
> >	Bring me my Arrows of desire;
> >	Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold!
> >	Bring me my Chariot of fire.
> >
> Does the last line show the source of the title of that movie (with the insuf
ferable theme 
> song) about the runners?  Or did they get it from the same place Blake did?  
Is this a 
> biblical allusion?

I thought this came from Apollo and his flaming chariot, representing the sun.

-yuf




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