Iain Sinclair: Blake’s Mental Traveller and The Gold Machine, a Talk to the Blake Society
In Sept 2021, Iain SinÂclair gave an improÂvised talk to the Blake SociÂety about how Blake’s poem, The MenÂtal TravÂelÂler, became the map and modÂel for a lifeÂtime of jourÂneys and pilÂgrimÂage quests. The MenÂtal TravÂelÂler was an awakenÂing, to be experÂiÂenced but not yet underÂstood. The poem returned at variÂous points in the years that folÂlowed, until it was acknowÂledged as the secret code for SinÂclair’s most recent book, The Gold Machine, a late-life expedÂiÂtion to one of the sources of the Amazon, in the footÂsteps of his great-grandfather.
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