tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28064502011-12-08T02:22:50.349-08:00Willy B in Cyber SDouglas McDaniel's new book, "The Road to Mythville," is available at both iUniverse.com and Amazon.com.Douglas McDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17709941464730435476noreply@blogger.comBlogger51100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2806450.post-1152041301362482752006-07-04T12:26:00.001-07:002006-07-04T12:28:21.366-07:0023 Roads to MythvilleAn apocalyptic journey across America and meditation on the imposition of order in space, both cyber and dirt real. By experiential author Douglas McDaniel, who explores the mysteries of American networked life. Read more Ipswich at WarA few days after Sept. 11, 2001, poet and essayist Douglas McDaniel moved to Ipswich, on the North Shore of Massachusetts. A collection of Douglas McDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17709941464730435476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2806450.post-1152041183972039512006-07-04T12:26:00.000-07:002006-07-04T12:26:52.036-07:00E-LIFE Paranoia goes pop on the Web Do you belong on the World Weird Web? By Douglas McDaniel May 7-May 13, 2000 Do you ever feel drawn to the dark, to the weird, to the hidden? When channel surfing, do you stop at the sound of Leonard Nimoy’s voice announcing that he’ll be “In Search Of ... " those ancient alien visitors who taught astronomy to the Mayans? Do you watch “The X-Files"? Do Douglas McDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17709941464730435476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2806450.post-1103734974554268452004-12-22T09:00:00.000-08:002006-05-03T08:01:51.480-07:00Mesmerism. N. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked incredulity to dinner. -Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s DictionaryMythville.com Darnton’s Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment presents a conservative approach to illuminist doctrines that appeared before the French Revolution. Through a careful examination of Mesmer’s ideas and his influence in Parisian culture, Douglas McDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17709941464730435476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2806450.post-88167422002-01-18T08:16:00.000-08:002002-01-18T10:31:32.000-08:00What's Now Proved Was Once Only Imagined
“Lo, a shadow of horror is risen
In Eternity! Unknown, unprolific,
Self-clos'd, all-repelling: what demon
Hath form'd this abominable void,
This soul-shudd'ring vacuum? Some said
'It is Urizen.’ But unknown, abstracted,
Brooding, secret, the dark power hid.”
----William Blake, from, “The Book of Urizen”
By Douglas McDaniel
Mythville MetaMedia
Douglas McDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17709941464730435476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2806450.post-28065302001-03-16T10:34:00.000-08:002001-11-30T04:17:45.000-08:00What’s now proved
was once only imagined
The year is 1790: One year after the fall of the Bastille. One year before the outbreak of French Revolution. Fourteen years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence in America. A Promethean place and time for William Blake, who would use his mind’s eye to imagine this wondrous new land and write in “America, A Prophecy” in 1793:
Silent as Douglas McDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17709941464730435476noreply@blogger.com