{"id":2328,"date":"2011-02-07T09:45:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T09:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/?p=2328"},"modified":"2011-06-15T14:04:37","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T14:04:37","slug":"the-2nd-book-of-urizen-by-tim-wright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/?p=2328","title":{"rendered":"The 2nd Book of Urizen by Tim Wright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/2nd-book-of-urizen_cover1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2338\" title=\"2nd-book-of-urizen_cover\" src=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/2nd-book-of-urizen_cover1-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/2nd-book-of-urizen_cover1-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/2nd-book-of-urizen_cover1-106x150.jpg 106w, https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/2nd-book-of-urizen_cover1.jpg 596w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Download<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/ebooks\/2nd-book-of-urizen_book_portrait_12pp_A4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">A4<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/ebooks\/2nd-book-of-urizen_book_portrait_12pp_US.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">US Letter<\/a> PDF 3.1Mb <a href=\"http:\/\/bkltr.it\/knTSMM\" target=\"_blank\">Read Online<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe src='https:\/\/bookleteer.com\/book.html?id=1160&#038;ui=embed#mode\/2up' width='480px' height='430px' frameborder='0' ><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>About<\/strong> :\u00a0<em>The 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Book of Urizen<\/em> is a work in progress by Tim Wright. He prefers to call it a walk in progress.\u00a0This booklet represents a sketch of a larger, richer work which will take the reader along the south London stretch of a longer L-shaped walk. See <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/VQeYe\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/VQeYe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the final production, it is imagined that a full \u2018broadcast quality\u2019 geolocated rendition of the Blake\u2019s Book of Urizen will be available \u2013 peppered with the imagined sounds of Lambeth in 1794 with music provided by Haydn, who was composing &amp; performing in London at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The whole project is meant to conjure up the sense of Blake striding around his home patch, composing and declaiming \u2013 perhaps even singing \u2013 one of his great \u2018prophetic\u2019 works.\u00a0Tim Wright continues:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m hoping to explore what it\u2019s like to walk around London alone with one\u2019s thoughts and ideas; to be considered different or perhaps even mad.<\/p>\n<p>I also want to explore a pet theory of mine that birth, miscarriage, childlessness and the pain of children growing up and apart from their parents were all things on William\u2019s mind at that time\u00a0\u2013 if even he didn\u2019t quite know it.<\/p>\n<p>By focussing on this theme it may also be possible to develop the voice of Blake\u2019s wife, Catherine, who never had children, but instead dedicated herself to Blake, working ceaselessly as his creative partner to help produce great works such as <em>The Book of Urizen<\/em>. What was life like for her? And what discussions took place between William and Catherine about the prospect of never having a family?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Published February 2011 in the <a href=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/?cat=976\">City As Material<\/a> series<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tim Wright<\/strong> is a digital writer, a cross platform media producer and a director of XPT Ltd. See\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xpt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.xpt.com<\/a> or follow\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/moongolfer\" target=\"_blank\">@moongolfer<\/a> on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>*** made with <a href=\"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\" target=\"_blank\">bookleteer.com<\/a> ***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download A4 | US Letter PDF 3.1Mb Read Online About :\u00a0The 2nd Book of Urizen is a work in progress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[976,8],"tags":[754,1036,979,966,708,52,393],"class_list":["post-2328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city-as-material","category-ebooks","tag-bookleteer","tag-bookreader","tag-city-as-material-2","tag-soundart","tag-tim-wright","tag-walking","tag-william-blake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2328"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2457,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions\/2457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}