The book of Heaven: a Novel
“—WILLIAM BLAKE Look to the left of the shimmering Sheaf of Wheat undulating in the heavens, and just upward of the cascading Cluster of Grapes, from which the thick black wine of every night is pressed. You will see her standing next to, though higher than, the Cauldron, just to the left of the Great Table. She pours that nocturnal wine, holding a pitcher whose handle is set with planets, from one starry hand. Just above the Cauldron is the small diagonal group of eleven stars, which resemble s...eed pearls and are known as the Grains of Salt. It is said that the twelfth has already dropped into the Cauldron.
With her other hand, she tips a ladle over the Cauldron; streaming uncountable diamantine grains of starry rice, wheat, corn, and all shapes of edible seeds fall from it. They keep the world from devouring its own body in its hunger.
For the world was created not from clay, but from butter, which can melt like an illusion; from fertile grasses and trees, which may yield no fruit; from meat, which may be the prey of its own mother.MoreLess
With her other hand, she tips a ladle over the Cauldron; streaming uncountable diamantine grains of starry rice, wheat, corn, and all shapes of edible seeds fall from it. They keep the world from devouring its own body in its hunger.
For the world was created not from clay, but from butter, which can melt like an illusion; from fertile grasses and trees, which may yield no fruit; from meat, which may be the prey of its own mother.MoreLess
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