Tag Archives: Blake

Inventing the future – the earliest mention of the word ‘wordpress’?

Posted on 31 July 2012 by

Two ifs: if there was a search engine that filtered on the earliest mention of, and if we then looked up ‘WordPress’, we would find this, by James Joyce, from 1939: A bone, a pebble, a ramskin; chip them, chap … Continue reading →

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‘Explicit to the idiot …’

Posted on 30 July 2011 by

Today, two things in my mind. One, William Blake’s extraordinary letter to the Reverend Dr Trusler (23 August 1799). For background, Blake was always very short of money; Trusler was offering to become a patron of Blake’s printed illustrations and … Continue reading →

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