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Jeff posts a really very interesting elucidation of Blake’s “infernal method” as a reading practice, or a heuristic at This Public Address 3.0. He was very kindly responding to a question I had left him in his comments about how one applies the “infernal method” to the classics. His answer:
Pushing propositions to their absurd limits, and looking at the benevolent (such as Socrates) as the enemy is what I meant by reading by the infernal method. It means to test, caustically and violently, all those things that even the �angels� tell you to be true.
After all of that, perhaps it’s time to go read The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
