Markela
Kontaratou

“A fiend of a book – an incredible monster  [...] The action is laid in hell, – only it seems places and people have English names there.”

-Dante Gabriel Rossetti

 

Heathcliff and Catherine are trapped in the continuum of   William Blake’s “The Four Zoas”. Cursed to eternally fall, they burn in their passion continuously, since they are opposing states of being unable to recover their lost psychic integration.

Elliptical and

inarticulate, they represent

primary aspects of life which are

unaffected by time and space, and

they only follow the path that

their nature dictates. Placed in a

world derived from fleshly bonds,

they are ceaselessly

rising and falling together like

the undying Gods of Blake’s

mythology.