Monday, July 14, 2008

Speaking of William Blake...


There are times when I've walked through Foley Square here in New York City with all of its courthouses and government buildings, with St. Andrew's Church and its inscription "Beati Qui Ambulant in Lege Domini," and with Police Headquarters peeking through behind the church, and I've thought of these lines from Blake:

Prisons are built with stones of Law,
And brothels with bricks of Religion.
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2 comments:

  1. blsJuly 14, 2008 at 1:13 PM

    I'm just about certain that brothels would have come into existence if religion had never been invented....

    ;-)

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  2. CounterlightJuly 14, 2008 at 9:59 PM

    You may be right.

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