Telmetale of stem or stone
- Tell me a tale of stone → Telmetale of stem or stone
Then Tharmas & Urthona felt the stony stupor rise/ Into their limbs Urthona shot forth a Vast Fibrous form/ Tharmas like a pillar of sand rolld round by the whirlwind/ An animated Pillar rolling round & round in incessant rage/ Los felt the stony stupor & his head rolld down beneath/ Into the Abysses of his bosom the vessels of his blood/ Dart forth upon the wind in pipes writhing about in the Abyss/ And Enitharmon pale & cold in milky juices flowd/ Into a form of Vegetation living having a voice/ Moving in rootlike fibres trembling in fear upon the Earth/ And Tharmas gave his Power to Los Urthona gave his strength
(Blake: Vala, or: The Four Zoas, Night the Eighth)
Also, the waning hearing and talking capacities of the washing women makes the gossip about Shem and Shaun, and their history with Issy (AnnaLivia's Daughtersons) mix with the simbols of the two sons: Shem (phonetically similar to Stem) as the living, creative object; Shaun (similar to Stone) as immobile and rigid.
