How Long to Read The Brilliant New Hercules

How Long Does it Take to Read The Brilliant New Hercules?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 30 minutes to read The Brilliant New Hercules by William Blake

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Two years after inventing relief etching, the printing method best suited to recording late 18th century revolutionary free improv visions, William Blake & his wife Catherine moved to 13 Hercules Buildings, Lambeth, London. For the next ten years at the Hercules, according to James Joyce, "Elemental beings and spirits of dead great men often came to the poet's room at night to speak with him about art and the imagination. Then Blake would leap out of bed, and, seizing his pencil, remain long hours in the cold London night drawing the limbs and lineaments of the visions, while his wife, curled up beside his easy chair, held his hand lovingly and kept quiet so as not to disturb the visionary ecstasy of the seer. When the vision had gone, about daybreak his wife would get back into bed, and Blake, radiant with joy and benevolence, would quickly begin to light the fire and get breakfast for the both of them. We are amazed that the symbolic beings Los and Urizen and Vala and Tiriel and Enitharmon and the shades of Milton and Homer came from their ideal world to a poor London room, and no other incense greeted their coming than the smell of East Indian tea and eggs fried in lard." Andy Wilson, who also smells decidedly unlike incense alongside an also exceedingly patient wife, now revisits Blake's visionary work through the bloodshot eyescapes of 21st century London. Armed with techniques for revolutionary free improv visions developed since Blake's time (Marxism, psychoanalysis, LSD, Photoshop), Wilson rereads Blake's esotericism as a practical programme for liberation, uniting otherwise trivial fragments of society's detritus into animated, throbbing life as only someone kicked out of both the SWP & the British military can. Wilson's collages coagulate into a renewed mythopoeia, transcribing Blake's visions onto the death throes of late capitalism, where radical subjectivity rendezvous with objective chance & explodes in kaleidoscopic class warfare. Full colour. "The most admirable thing about the fantastic is that the fantastic doesn't exist, everything is real." Andre Breton Michael Tencer"

How long is The Brilliant New Hercules?

The Brilliant New Hercules by William Blake is 210 pages long, and a total of 52,500 words.

This makes it 71% the length of the average book. It also has 64% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Brilliant New Hercules Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 46 minutes to read The Brilliant New Hercules aloud.

What Reading Level is The Brilliant New Hercules?

The Brilliant New Hercules is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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