Chapter 10 (Wheels)
"There Ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand"
(1 Kings,
18:1)

Chapter 11 (The Dragonflies)
"A truth that's told with Bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent -"
(William Blake)

Chapter 12 (The Break)
"Still as he fled, his eyes was backward cast,
As if his feare still followed him behind"
(Edmund Spenser)

From The Faerie Queen.

Chapter 13 (Tialys and Salmakia)
"Frowning frowning night,
O'er this desert bright,
Let thy moon arise,
While I close my eyes."
(William Blake)

From Plate 6 of Songs of Experience (same poem as the quote from Chapter 1)

Chapter 14 (Know what it is)
"Labour without joy is base.
Labour without sorrow is base.
Sorrow without labour is base.
Joy without labour is base."
(John Ruskin)

Chapter 15 (The Forge)
"As I was walking among the fires of hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius"
(William Blake)

From Plates 6 & 7 of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, a part called "A memorable fancy"

Chapter 16 (The Intention Craft)
"from the archèd roof
Pendqnt by suttle Magic many a row
Of Starry Lamps and blazing Cressets fed
With Naphtha and Asphaltus yeilded light"
(John Milton)

From Paradise Lost, Book 1.

Chapter 17 (Oil and Lacquer)
"Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made"
(Genesis,
3:1)

Chapter 18 (The Suburbs of the Dead)
"O that it were possible
We might but hold some two days' conference
With the dead"
(John Webster)


From the
Duchess of Malfi, Act 4: scene 1.
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