Masters Blake

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    It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will ... is a shapeless world.
    Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)

    O God, protect me from my friends, that they have not power over me.
    Thou hast giv’n me power to protect myself from thy bitterest enemies.
    —William Blake (1757–1827)