William Blake's densely lettered pages in Jerusalem and other books challenge our relationship to reading itself. Blake demands full attention; he's not going to make it easy or fluid. It's a thick, dense, slow space (and pace). Note the staccato leading, a result of the superscript notes.The text above is also thick, dense, and slow. But how radically different! Blake engenders wonder, the screengrab from this website is wholly unreadable. Blake challenges the act of reading, this text repels it. Printers in the 15th century would have known better.
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