…You know this poem, right? So it's operating in the light of that same feeling. But where? What we get out of Shelley is an archaeological site, a shattered wreck. What we get out of Yeats is something much darker and more menacing, something…

…like a floor of adamant. On this Lake I lay in a little boat divinely carved from pearl after the similitude of triton's Shelley Shallop. Its rudder and its orage were my own unconscious will and without the labors of a special volition, I floated as I…

…alive. Organisms are completely outside the range of physical exclamation at this point for science. So what is it for? I mean Shelley and Shakespeare, Quantum theory the paintings at altamira who are we and what? What is history and what is it push for?…

…1795 through much of the 18th century. Not only the great names associated with it Coleridge and de Quincey, but Byron and Shelley all of these people dabbled in opium. Well what comes out of the English Romantic imagination's contact with the reveries of…

…the imperium, I want a kind of pantheistic richness that is right there on the surface. So I enjoy playing Byron to Rupert Shelley and hope to do so this weekend. Happy valentine's day. Now I'm going to introduce Ralph. I met Ralph in terrace as terrace…