Years later, and moments before his death, Gull has an extended mystical experience, where his spirit travels through time, observing the crimes of the London Monster, instigating or inspiring a number of other killers ( Peter Sutcliffe, Ian Brady ), causing Netley's death, as well as serving as the inspiration for both Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and William Blake's painting " The Ghost of a Flea ".

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He refers to his other self as " The Great Red Dragon " after William Blake's painting " The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun ".

Cumberland was a close friend of William Blake, and it has been suggested that Blake's work may also have had some influence on Danby, for example in Danby's second exhibited painting, Disappointed Love, shown at the Royal Academy in 1821.

Urizen has clear similarities with the creature called the Demiurge by Gnostic sects, who is likewise largely derived of the Old Testament god ( more specifically, like Blake's Urizen, the demiurge is a radical remodelling of that figure achieved by expanding that figure's original contextual setting, or by removing him to one that is almost completely new ).

Jerome Blake is something of a religious figure to ComStar ; oaths such as " By the blessed Blake " or epithets such as " Blake's Blood!

In Blake's version, the true Satan was God, who created the physical reality, and the Satan / Orc figure represents the human desire which is transformed into accepting of law and reason.

Jerome Blake was a religious figure to ComStar ; oaths such as " By the blessed Blake " or epithets such as " Blake's Blood!

The show was based on Whitney Blake's own life as a single mother, raising her child, future actress Meredith Baxter.

Several individuals and companies have produced unofficial material based upon Blake's 7.

Slash later spread to other fandoms, first Starsky and Hutch, Blake's 7, and The Professionals, then many others, eventually creating a fandom based around the concept of slash.

Many early slash stories were based on a pairing of two close friends, a " hero dyad " or " One True Pairing " such as Kirk / Spock or Starsky / Hutch ; conversely, a classic pairing between foils was that of Blake / Avon from Blake's 7.

Blake's work changed direction featuring scenes based on English Folklore and characters from Shakespeare.

In July 2011 Big Finish obtained a licence to produce audiobooks and novels based on the BBC television series Blake's 7.

After the outbreak of World War II, Blake's first significant command ( as a Major General ) was Officer Commanding, 7th Military District ( the Northern Territory ), based in Darwin, from September 1941.

Tim Blake ( synthesiser player on Planet Gong ) produced a solo album called " Blake's New Jerusalem ", including a 20 minute track with lyrics from Blake's poem.

During the Word of Blake's jihad against the rest of the Inner Sphere the mercenary command Wolf's Dragoons launched a failed assault on Mars which resulted in the nuclear scouring of their base planet of Outreach.

Doctor Who alumni moved on to create their own science-fiction programmes, such as Doomwatch ( 1970 – 73 ), Survivors ( 1975 – 77 ), and Blake's 7 ( 1978 – 81 ).

He collaborated with Edwin Ellis on the first complete edition of William Blake's works, in the process rediscovering a forgotten poem " Vala, or, the Four Zoas ".

Blake's 7 is a British science fiction television series produced by the BBC for broadcast on BBC1.

Series creator Terry Nation pitched Blake's 7 to the BBC as " The Dirty Dozen in space ", a reference to the 1967 Robert Aldrich film in which a disparate and disorganised group of convicts are sent on a suicide mission during World War II.

Blake's first target is a communications station on the planet Saurian Major.

Political pressure grows on the Administration with planetary leaders threatening to leave the Federation because of its inability to protect them from Blake's attacks.

It is also nice to have each episode complete within itself, while still carrying on the saga of Blake's struggle against the 1984-ish Federation.

He wrote " If you wanted to sum up the relative position of Britain and America in this century – the ebbing away of the pink areas of the map, the fading of national self-confidence as Uncle Sam proceeded to colonise the globe with fizzy drinks and Hollywood – you could do it like this: they had Star Trek, we had Blake's 7 ... No ' boldly going ' here: instead, we got the boot stamping on a human face which George Orwell offered as a vision of humanity's future in Nineteen Eighty-Four.

A similar poll in Britain conducted for SFX magazine in 1999 put Blake's 7 at 16th place, with the magazine commenting that " twenty years on, TV SF is still mapping the paths first explored by Terry Nation's baby ".

In 2006 the BBC produced a 30-minute documentary The Cult of ... Blake's 7 that was first broadcast on 12 December on BBC Four, as part of a Science Fiction Britannia series.

In 1998 Blake's 7 returned to the BBC on the radio.

On 31 October 2005 B7 Enterprises announced it had appointed Drew Kaza as Non-Executive Chairman and that it was working on two Blake's 7 projects.

The sheet music of the Blake's 7 theme was published by Chappell & Co. Ltd in 1978 with a photograph of Liberator on the front cover.

The Blake's 7 theme was also released on an album BBC Space Themes, and Liberator was featured on the album sleeve.

Another version of the theme, ' Blake's 7 Disco ', was recorded by Federation and released in 1979 on Beeb Records with a B-side unconnected with the series.

From 1991 BBC Video released Blake's 7 in episodic order on 26 VHS cassettes with two episodes per tape.

According to Michel Surya, the philosopher Georges Bataille threw pages of Blake's book into the casket of his friend and lover Colette Peignot on her death in 1938.

Blake's response included Leigh Hunt, who aside from publishing the vitriolic reviews of 1808 and 1809 had added Blake's name on a list of " quacks ".< ref name =" BlakeEssick1998 ">

His other acting television appearances include: Blake's 7, Dixon of Dock Green, The Saint, The Millicent Martin Show, Little Women, The Pathfinders, Catherine Cookson's The Gambling Man ( 1995 ) and more recently Heartbeat ( 1997, as a Doctor ).

The title of Nicholas Blake's 1949 detective novel Head of a Traveller is a quotation from Housman's parody Fragment of a Greek Tragedy.

This unusual association of the Minotaur with Centaurs, not made in any Classical source, is shown visually in William Blake's rendering of the Minotaur ( illustration ) as a kind of taurine centaur himself.

The line " Some are born to sweet delight, some are born to endless night " from " End of the Night " is a quote from William Blake's poem " Auguries of Innocence ".

Marsh ’ s estimate is more favourable than Blake's, he portrays Salisbury as a leader who " held back the popular tide for twenty years.

** In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refuses to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger and is arrested, leading to the Montgomery bus boycott.

Blake's 7 is a science fiction television series that was created by Terry Nation and produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ).

However, he is courageous, strong and dedicated to Blake's cause.

A common theme in Nation's science fiction is the depiction of post-apocalyptic societies, as in several of his Doctor Who serials, for example The Daleks, Death to the Daleks and The Android Invasion and in his series Survivors, which Nation created before Blake's 7.

Tarrant is nearly killed by Blake's colleagues when Avon and his crew save him, giving credence to Tarrant's accusation that Blake has betrayed them to the Federation.

But is that dark-haired telepathic alien girl, the latest addition to Blake's outer-space merry men, going to spell love trouble for blonde Jenna?

Tony Attwood's Blake's 7: The Programme Guide, published by Target in 1982, is a factual overview of the series with a detailed episode guide, an encyclopedia, and interviews with the cast and writers.

William Blake's watercolour and relief etching entitled " The Ancient of Days " is one such example.

The Indian, calling himself Nobody, reveals that the bullet is too close to Blake's heart to remove, and Blake is effectively walking dead.

When he learns Blake's full name, Nobody decides Blake is a reincarnation of William Blake, a poet whom he idolizes but of whom accountant Blake himself is ignorant.

Fearful Symmetry is a phrase from William Blake's poem The Tyger ( Tyger, tyger, burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry ?).

The lark is also ( often simultaneously ) associated with " lovers and lovers ' observance " and with " church services " ( Sylvester and Roberts 2000 ), and often those the meanings of daybreak and religious reference are combined ( in Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion, into a " spiritual daybreak " ( Baine and Baine 1986 )) to signify " passage from Earth to Heaven and from Heaven to Earth " ( Stevens 2001 ).

He connects this feeling to William Blake's poem The Tyger, which is quoted piecemeal throughout the entire novel:

It is a series of texts written in imitation of biblical prophecy but expressing Blake's own intensely personal Romantic and revolutionary beliefs.

Blake's purpose is to create what he called a " memorable fancy " in order to reveal the repressive nature of conventional morality and institutional religion, which he describes thus: