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points by RobotToaster 1 day ago | 0 comments

What's more gothic than dark satanic mills

You are getting downvoted because the largely American audience here doesn’t get the reference: https://oxfordsong.org/song/jerusalem

[–] tim333 1 day ago

There doesn't seem much mention of gothic in that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_did_those_feet_in_ancient_...

[–] ninalanyon 1 day ago

One of the interpretations of the poem is that it criticises organised religion and that the mills in question are the church as an organisation represented in concrete terms by the church buildings.

[–] tim333 19 hours ago

I criticise organised religion but have never much associated it with gothic.

Blake's first mention of mills says "Get to thy Labours at the mills" which doesn't sound very church like https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Milton_a...

I looked him up and funnily enough he lived in the same area I do. The majority the churches are not gothic eg. St Pauls.

Also he lived at a time when cotton mills were booming which do look kind of dark and satanic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_mill#Remodelling_and_ex...

[–] contingencies 1 day ago

I think they moved them to Canary Wharf and covered them in glass.