the gaps, left or overleaped by the haste of the 
     imagination, forming the grotesque character.

     For Ruskin, Gothic appeared as an indispensable means of 
breaking open the closed system of perception that Blake spent 
his life describing and fighting. Ruskin proceeds (p. 96) to 
explain Gothic grotesque as the best way of ending the regime 
of Renaissance perspective and single vision or realism:

     It is with a view (not the least important among many 
     others bearing upon art) to the reopening of this great 
     field of human intelligence, long entirely closed, that I am 
     striving to introduce Gothic architecture into daily 
     domestic use; and to revive the art of illumination, 
     properly so called; not the art of miniature-painting in 
     books, or on vellum, which has ridiculously been confused