{"id":207,"date":"2003-05-30T19:41:05","date_gmt":"2003-05-31T03:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/blogs\/?p=207"},"modified":"2003-05-30T19:41:05","modified_gmt":"2003-05-31T03:41:05","slug":"95105896","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/95105896\/","title":{"rendered":"95105896"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff posts a really very interesting elucidation of Blake&#8217;s &#8220;infernal method&#8221; as a reading practice, or a heuristic at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thispublicaddress.com\/archives\/000371.php\">This Public Address 3.0<\/a>.  He was very kindly responding to a question I had left him in his comments about how one applies the &#8220;infernal method&#8221; to the classics.  His answer:<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>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 \u00ef\u00bf\u00bdangels\u00ef\u00bf\u00bd tell you to be true.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>After all of that, perhaps it&#8217;s time to go read <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/richardrecord\/Blake\/mhh\/mhh.html\"><i>The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff posts a really very interesting elucidation of Blake&#8217;s &#8220;infernal method&#8221; 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 &#8220;infernal method&#8221; 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 \u00ef\u00bf\u00bdangels\u00ef\u00bf\u00bd tell you to be true. After all of that, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/siBp1-95105896","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}