with it; but of making writing , simple writing, beautiful to 
     the eye, by investing it with the great chord of perfect 
     color, blue, purple, scarlet, white, and gold, and in that 
     chord of color, permitting the continual play of the fancy 
     of the writer in every species of grotesque imagination, 
     carefully excluding shadow; the distinctive difference 
     between illumination and painting proper, being, that 
     illumination admits no  shadows, but only gradations of 
     pure color.

     The student of Rimbaud will find that it was while reading 
this part of Ruskin that Rimbaud found his title for 
Illuminations . The technique of vision in the Illuminations  or 
“painted slides,” (as Rimbaud called them, in English, on his 
title page) is exactly as Ruskin delineates the grotesque. But 
even Joyce’s Ulysses  finds anticipatory designation in the same