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"Æ" can be used to represent this textually. As in, is it an "A", or is it an "E" ? The answer being, Yes.

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Ben Patrick Holden's avatar

Thank you. I love that.

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Danny's avatar

What I love about this is, it's like you're living in a permanent episode of Lost.

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Ben Patrick Holden's avatar

A man can but aspire.

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Sarah's avatar

A synchronicity that I mentioned Blake the day you released this. Love that guy. Thanks for the read.

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Ben Patrick Holden's avatar

I like to think Blake encourages them.

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Robin CM Duncan's avatar

Ben, my friend, another fine piece, reminding us of important truths.

I have a theory, which is disappointingly prosaic. You may be aware that London has a population of parakeets, and has done since the... early 1900s? I think. These can quite readily be seen in certain parks in the capital, living wild. We saw a pair flying around at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich 3 or 4 years ago. However, not content with spreading their wings in Lon-Don, the species is moving further north, to the extent that we now have parakeets (2, 3, 4?) in the woods near us here in Glasgow.

So, I wonder if it is possible that your sighting could have been (a) a parakeet (and therefore green instead of blue?); or (b) some other exotic species scouting its new surroundings after escaping captivity (a macaw?); and the less likely option (c) a kingfisher aerobatic display team flying in close formation.

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Ben Patrick Holden's avatar

Thanks Robo san. I love your theories. Especially the kingfisher one. I think it was that.

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Anna Vigurs's avatar

Lovely tale, and with no doubt a Fae. Having listened to The Modern Fairy Sightings podcast for a year, my eyes and heart are now full open to such things.

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Ben Patrick Holden's avatar

Thanks Anna. Some people think faeries are literal creatures that hide in the woods. I don't. I feel people want to believe that. That probably has to do with the polarisation of matter and spirit, and the loss of that third way - the way of soul, which mediates between matter and spirit, and has a lot more to do with metaphor and imagination as vital to the ground of being. I think Blake embodies this in his art and poetry. His whole mythos is alive with it. Don't know if that makes sense to you, but I'd need a lot more words to be any clearer. I always feel like I'm I fall into snooty-talk when I'm trying to be concise, especially when it comes to tricky things like fae and soul and William Blake.

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Jocelyn Wilson's avatar

I began 'collapsing the electron' because the world is so very full of charlatans that I didn't want to add to their numbers.

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Ben Patrick Holden's avatar

Jocelyn, I think you've hit on something important here. My response might be its own post. Thanks for inciting.

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