《Blake's progress 》作者：- R. F. Nelson【EPUB】

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Scanned by Highroller. Proofed by a ProofPack Proofer. Made prettier by use of EBook Design Group Stylesheet. Blake's Progress by R.F. Nelson INTRODUCTION When I first heard that Ray Nelson was writing a science fiction novel about William Blake, I was a bit surprised. "What does Blake have to do with science fiction?" I asked. "Ah," said Ray, "you forget that he had visions of the future. He was, in fact, a time traveler ." Ray stared at me with his piercingly mild eyes. I said, "Oh, I see. Sort of like DaVinci in Manly Wade Wellman's Twice in Time" "Not at all," said Ray. "Mr. Blake wasn't a modern man who went back in time, he was an 18th Century man who traveled at will to the limits of the timestream, past and future. His works show it." "They do?" I said. Ray knows more about art than I; he was studying art at the University of Chicago when I was still in junior high school, struggling with Mechanical Drawing. He also knows more about poetry than I; he published a slim volume called Perdita: Poems of Love and Self Pity while I was graduating from high school (and reading Manly Wade Wellman). "Read my book and you'll understand it all," Ray told me. So I did read his novel, and