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critique of misappropriated marginalized voices, such as the Black's.
 s At this crucial moment I paraphrase Stanley Fish's position (as I first encoun-
tered it with great excitement during one of Fish's energetic presentations at the
University of California, Berkeley, when we were colleagues) to indicate the
subliminal but profound persistent influence his work has had on mine, however
much we may differ in details and methods of analysis and in our respective
estimations of Blake's sanity.
 6 For an elaboration of this position with regard to other literature, see Martin
Jay, The Dialectical Imagination; FredricJameson, Marxism and Form and The Politi-
cal Unconscious: Narrative as Socially Symbolic Act (Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
1981).
 7 One of the most problematic relations between Los, the Spectre, and Urthona
involves their mutual connection to the "body." Weak evidence that Los is a
Spectre could be culled from conflicting events in Nights I and VIIa. In the Mes-
sengers' account in Night I, Urthona's "spectre fled / To Enion & his body fell.
Tharmas beheld him fall / Endlong a raging serpent" (22:27-29); this body is said
to be a "Glittring monster" (like Tharmas' Spectre) and is driven into a "cavernd
rock" (22:30-31). In recounting his division from Enitharmon in Night IV, the
Spectre of Urthona makes no reference to Los, but in Night VIIa, he tells the
Shadow of Enitharmon that he "formd a Male to be a counterpart to thee... In due
time issuing forth from Enions womb / Thou & that demon Los wert born"
(84:27-29). He then claims to have become "the Slave of that Creation I created"
(84:31) and finally identifies this Los with "That body I created" (84:35), which he
wishes to destroy. This could retroactively imply that the "body" that fell in the
Messengers' account in Night I and took on the characteristics of Tharmas'
Spectre was Los (whose name was conspicuously absent from the Messengers'
report). This same evidence can, of course, be used to demonstrate precisely the
opposite: that, if Los is identified with the body, he is differentiable from the
Spectre, since, by the Spectre's own logic, "without a Created body the Spectre is
Eternal Death" (87:39).
 8 This reading is (at least partially) borne out by the following lines from
"Auguries of Innocence": "Naught can deform the Human Race / Like to the
Armours iron brace" (E, p. 483, 492), even though in Night IX the "armour" is
golden.
 9 The verb appears in the past tense at the moment Urizen in dragon form looks
up toward the ascendant Ore, "Repining in his heart & spirit that Ore reignd over
all" (107:19), a statement which fully cements the oppressive cycle.
 'o Although this reading might seem to account for the capitalized "The," the
earlier, crossed-out title had read "a DREAM" not "The Dream."
 If the "Dream" ends prior to the last thirty-one lines of the poem (which
would be the case if the final lines of the poem depict the emergence of an absolute
non-dream reality), the words "End of The Dream" (in the sense of closure)
should appear between lines 138:19 and 139:20,just prior to this awakening.
 12 The Spectre's speech represses Urizen and privileges Luvah, while the
Shadow's account contains both characters; furthermore, the Spectre's motives are
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