Labyrinths and Clues

This book contains the following pieces, all published first in The Fortnightly Review: Essayism and Modernity William Blake. Therianthropes and vents. Constellations. Pattern recognition and the periodic table. Extremities of perception in an age of lenses. Demotic ritual. Science and disenchantment. The self-subversion of the book. Newton's prisms. The Janus face of Metaphor. Clues and labyrinths. Ruin, the collector and sad mortality.