Her hair was tasseled. Bees mean honey. And the darkness was closed; there was nothing open in the darkness. Darkness comes when things close. This is why he shattered the church windows with his mind from the attic of the church. Red brick, red brick. Break it down, break it down, watch it fall down. Charlie thinks he’ll make it to the gardens in the stars just by being poor. All this made me very much disturbed, so I said to William Blake, "Interpret my dreams for me, for my dreams only confuse me." But William Blake would not interpret my dreams, but said, "Certainly you will one day have a dream that you are looking at cracks in the plaster of a wall." I said, "Last night I had a dream having to do with playing guitar on an airplane. I was in the luggage compartment where they put all the checked luggage. It was a small little space, and I could not stand up. Then it turned out I was in the attic of a church, and I left the church with a good friend of mine, and we were happy in our companionship." But he would not interpret my dream, but said, "Certainly one day you will have a dream that you are looking at cracks in the foundation of your home." And thus the ants marched out: in winding columns that spread out like cracks in the sidewalk. They marched out, gathered things, and marched back in. And they found me, and said to me, "We are we, the Many that is One." I said to them, "I am I, the one that is one." They said to me, "The city is many, the Many that is One; thou art part of thy god, the City." And I knew should the city perish I would perish; and should the city flourish I would flourish; and so I went out and did many good works, for I was the city and the city was I. And finally I saw a vision of the One: the one was made of pieces and parts, and each piece and part was made of pieces and parts; and even the One was merely a piece and part in a larger One, which was itself only a piece and part, on to infinity. And I fell down and mourned and said, "Lord, is there nothing in the cosmos that is One?" And God said, "There is one nature and one principle to all things," and I did not comprehend him.

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