Книга Уризена/25
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Язык оригинала: английский. Название в оригинале: The Book of Urizen. — Дата создания: ок. 1794. |
[Plate 25]
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Д. Смирнов-Садовский: |
Plate 23
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Примечания
Лист 25. Над текстом: четыре женские фигуры, в окруженные кольцами гигантского червя или драконообразной змеи. Вероятнее всего, это дочери Уризена, которые «вышли из трав и животных, / Из могильных червей или гадов» (447-448).
456. Пёс замёрзший скулит у дверей... — строка иллюстрирована на Листе 26.
472. Эту сеть или деву в зародыше... — эта странная строка в большинстве копий стёрта. Стивенсон (272) считает, что Блейк уподобляет эту сеть беременной женщине, носящей в себе зародыш новой жизни. Острайкер (918) предполагает, что это нарождающаяся церковь, которую Блейк всегда описывает в образе женщины.
476. Называют её Сеть Религии... — по Блейку: ещё один капкан для человечества наряду с наукой (см. Острайкер 918).
Глава IX. Начало человеческой истории.
477-501. Нервы жителей тех городов / Сжались, ссохлись, одеревенели... Как поясняют Эллис и Йейтс, «жители городов» — здесь «подразделения разума Уризена»; их нервы усохли и окостенели, «как интеллект человека под воздействием Религии, когда Религия является сетью, а не вдохновением» (см. Эллис/Йейтс—II 132) Стивенсон (272) отмечает, что а этой и предыдущей главах имеются в виду города Египта.
491-492. Стали вроде двуногих рептилий, /Высотою в семь футов ничтожных... — эти усохшие существа становятся людьми. Человек редко достигает роста семи футов (2,1336 метра), однако даже такой человек бесконечно мал в сравнении с «бесконечными» размерами тех гигантов, которыми эти существа оставались бы, не будучи пойманными гибельными и лицемерными сетями Религии Уризена (см. там же). Ср. также: «В то время были на земле исполины, особенно же с того времени, как сыны Божии стали входить к дочерям человеческим, и они стали рождать им: это сильные, издревле славные люди» (Бытие 6:4).
494-495. В день седьмой — отдыхали они, / Осенив его благословеньем... — они благословили седьмой день, потому что кончили «усыхать».
497-498. Тридцать их городов стали рядом, / Форму сердца составив собой... — Блейк даёт понять, что речь идёт об Африке, ставшей колыбелью цивилизации — так в «Песне Лоса» Блейк замечает, что Африка на карте имеет «форму сердца».
On design:
Sector AB plate Illustration:
Two nude and apparently female figures seem to be held in or emerging from the coils of giant worms or serpents; or, alternatively, the women may be the heads and upper bodies of the worms. The woman on the left, arms at her side and head tilted back, looks up and off to the left. The serpent's coil wraps around her midriff, beneath which her body disappears. The woman to the right looks in the same direction, her hands clutching her head. The scene is set in the midst of mostly indeterminate vegetation. Leafy structures edge the bottom of the design, and behind the main figures is either more vegetation in batwinged shapes or serpent wings. Just the face of a third figure, looking in the same direction as the other two, appears at the surface of the vegetation at the far right. A fourth figure, scaly, with bat wings, faces down, her head partly obscuring the upper body of the woman clutching her head. Her long hair ends in a spike or point. She is hunched over in a quasi-crawling position, a serpent coiled around her midsection. The women may be Urizen's daughters, who are born "from green herbs & cattle / From monsters, & worms of the pit" (Plate 22, lines 24-25).
Component (Sector A) Keywords:
Urizen's daughters female nude serpent-coiled facing forward facing left upper body arm at side arm bent A nude woman seen from the bosom up, arm at her side and head tilted back, looks up and off to the left. The coil of a worm or serpent wraps around her midriff, beneath which her body disappears. She is probably one of Urizen's newly born daughters.
Component (Sector B)
Keywords:
Urizen's daughters female nude serpent-coiled hands clutching head arms bent upward upper body facing up facing left A serpent-coiled nude woman, seen from the waist or hips up, looks up and off to the left, her hands clutching her head. She is probably one of Urizen's newly born daughters.
Component (Sector B)
Keywords:
Urizen's daughters female face serpent-coiled facing up facing left
Just the face of a third figure, possibly female, looking in the same direction as the other two, appears amidst the coils of serpents or worms at the surface of the vegetation at the far right. She is probably one of Urizen's newly born daughters.
Component (Sector AB)
Keywords:
Urizen's daughters female scales bat-winged facing down long hair hunched over crawling serpent-coiled
Flanked by the other figures, a fourth woman, scaly, with bat wings, faces down, her head partly obscuring the upper body of the female clutching her head. Her long hair ends in a spike or point. She is hunched over in a quasi-crawling position, a serpent coiled around her midsection. She is probably one of Urizen's daughters.
Component (Sector AB)
Keywords: indeterminate leaf bat-winged
The scene is set in the midst of mostly indeterminate vegetation. Leafy structures edge the bottom of the design, and behind the main figures is either more vegetation in bat-winged shapes or serpent wings. Component (Sector AB) Keywords: worm serpent bat-winged coiled Giant worms or serpents, perhaps bat-winged, coil around human figures.
Sector E
interlinear Illustration:
The interlinear designs on this plate are frequently reinforced with watercolor. A central vine separates the columns of text. Its serpentine (even snake-like below line 49), flame- like, or loopy leaves and tendrils (with other bits of vegetation independent of the central vine, a few of these generated as extensions of letters in the text) help fill the spaces between stanzas (6-7, 7-8, 8-9, 1-2, 2-3, 3-4), at the foot of the left column, and around short lines. Between stanzas 5 and 6 (lines 5-6) is a row of at least four figures, and other figures appear between stanzas 7 and 8 (lines 22-23) and between 8 and 9 (lines 25-27); in the right column, there are two figures between stanzas 1 and 2 (lines 36-37). There is a single flying bird at the end of line 49, just above a particularly snake- like tendril of vegetation that appears to be rearing its head, mouth open, toward the bird. An indistinct shape—perhaps a caterpillar or chrysalis—appears at the top of the central vine, in the center just above the text.
Component (Sector E)
Keywords: vine serpentine loop flame-like leaf
The interlinear designs on this plate are frequently reinforced with watercolor. A central vine separates the columns of text. Its serpentine (especially between stanzas 3 and 4 in the right column), flame-like, or loopy (after lines 3 and 10) leaves and tendrils (with other bits of vegetation independent of the central vine, a few of these generated as extensions of letters in the text) help fill the spaces between stanzas (6-7, 7-8, 8-9, 1-2, 2-3, 3-4), at the chapter break at the foot of the left column, and around short lines. Component (Sector C)
Keywords: gown hovering body horizontal arms extended
Between stanzas 5 and 6 (lines 5-6), after two bits of vegetation(?), is a row of four human figures. The gowned one furthest to the right is hovering horizontally, arms extended.
Component (Sector C)
Keywords:
running arm extended leg extended backward
Between stanzas 5 and 6 (lines 5-6), after two bits of vegetation(?), is a row of four human figures. The figure second from the right runs to the left with arm raised and leg extended backward.
Component (Sector C)
Keywords:
running leg extended backward
Between stanzas 5 and 6 (lines 5-6), after two bits of vegetation(?), is a row of four human figures. Third from the right, a figure runs to the right with leg extended backward.
Component (Sector C)
Keywords:
falling legs spread arms raised horizontally
Between stanzas 5 and 6 (lines 5-6), after two bits of vegetation(?), is a row of four human figures. Fourth from the right, a figure falls(?) upside down with arms raised horizontally and legs spread.
Component (Sector C)
Keywords:
hovering arms raised horizontally drapery gown
Between stanzas 7 and 8 (lines 22-23) a figure hovers with arms raised horizontally. Bits of drapery or a gown stream from the figure toward the left.
Component (Sector D)
Keywords:
hovering body horizontal arms extended legs spread Between stanzas 1 and 2 (lines 36-37) two figures facing one another hover with their bodies horizontal and their arms extended toward one another. The legs on the right figure are spread.
Component (Sector C)
Keywords:
gown hovering arms extended facing down Between stanzas 8 and 9 (lines 25-27) a gowned figure hovers, facing down; its arms are extended.
Component (Sector D)
Keywords: bird flying
There is a single flying bird at the end of line 49.
Component (Sector B)
Keywords: insect caterpillar chrysalis
An indistinct shape—perhaps a caterpillar or chrysalis—appears at the top of the central vine, in the center just above the text.
Component (Sector D)
Keywords: serpent mouth open
The serpentine vegetation between stanzas 3 and 4 (lines 49-50) here has a particularly snake-like appearance due to the added watercolor, which suggests a serpent with head raised, mouth open, toward the bird just above.