IVIV (0) This Lively Yarn

[alice wellintown]

Moby-Dick is a massive tapestry spun from the Loom of God, and so too
is the world, projected or spun, and so too are you, dear reader. In
M-D Melville spind a thousand and one knights and squires from the
frame narrative Looming.

Speaking of the Strand Wolf Man, that is the White Man's Burden born
on the backs of workers like Sarah in V., the wolf and the lion are
traditional symbols of Empire building. see William Blake and a
million others. He's a wolf pack submarine Jew-Nazi terror whose hair
is always perfect.

Hard Times

XI  NO WAY OUT
	
THE Fairy palaces burst into illumination, before pale
morning showed the monstrous serpents of smoke trailing
themselves over  Coketown.  A clattering of clogs upon the
pavement; a rapid ringing  of bells; and all the melancholy
mad elephants, polished and oiled  up for the day's
monotony, were at their heavy exercise again. Stephen bent
over his loom, quiet, watchful, and steady.  A special
contrast, as every man was in the forest of looms where
Stephen worked, to the crashing, smashing, tearing piece of
mechanism at
which he laboured.  Never fear, good people of an anxious
turn of mind, that Art will consign Nature to oblivion.  Set
anywhere, side  by side, the work of GOD and the work of
man; and the former, even though it be a troop of Hands of
very small account, will gain in  dignity from the
comparison. So many hundred Hands in this Mill; so many
hundred horse Steam  Power.  It is known, to the force of a
single pound  eight,
what  the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of
the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil,
for love or hatred,  for patriotism or discontent, for the
decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse, at any
single moment in the soul of one of these its quiet
servants, with the composed faces and the
regulated actions.  There is no mystery in it; there is an
unfathomable mystery in the meanest of them, for ever. -
Supposing we were to reverse our arithmetic for material
objects, and to govern these awful unknown quantities by
other means!