Labyrinths and Clues: EssaysThis book contains the following pieces, all published first in The Fortnightly Review: Essayism and Modernity William Blake. Therianthropes and vents. Constellations. Pattern recognition and the periodic table. Extremities of perception in an age of lenses. Demotic ritual. Science and disenchantment. The self subversion of the book. Newton's prisms. The Janus face of Metaphor. Clues and labyrinths. Ruin, the collector and sad mortality. Author: Alan