The Roommate From Hell

385: and appear infinite, and holy whereas it now appears finite & corrupt.

386: This will come to pass by an improvement of sensual enjoyment.

388: this I shall do, by printing in the infernal method, by corrosives,

389: which in Hell are salutary and medicinal, melting apparent surfaces away, and displaying the infinite which was hid.

390: If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.

391: For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern.

392: I was in a Printing house in Hell & saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

393: In the first chamber was a Dragon-Man, clearing away the rubbish from a caves moth;

394: within, a number of Dragons were hollowing the cave.

395: In the second chamber was a Viper folding round the rock & the cave,

396: and others adorning it with gold, silver and precious stones.

397: In the third chamber was an Eagle with wings and feathers of air; he caused the inside of the cave to be infinite;