associationism, as hypnotized by his own image. The “garden,” 
or unified consciousness, ended. Eighteenth-century man got 
an extension of himself in the form of the spinning machine 
that Yeats endows with its full sexual significance. Woman, 
herself, is thus seen as a technological extension of man’s 
being.

     Blake’s counterstrategy for his age was to meet 
mechanism with organic myth. Today, deep in the electric age, 
organic myth is itself a simple and automatic response capable 
of mathematical formulation and expression, without any of 
the imaginative perception of Blake about it. Had he 
encountered the electric age, Blake would not have met its 
challenge with a mere repetition of electric form. For myth is  
the instant vision of a complex process that ordinarily extends 
over a long period. Myth is contraction or implosion of any