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Wonder; no wonder: William Blake's Illustrations to the Book of Job.(Critical essay)

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From: Queen's Quarterly
Date: 20071222
Author:Aitken, Kelley

WHEN I moved in with my partner Frank, nine years ago, I quickly discovered that the new soundtrack of my life would be opera, at hitherto unimagined decibels. He washed dishes and did e-mail and snaked out clogged drains and repaired his bike (in the kitchen!) with Verdi or Puccini or Wagner playing on homemade tapes recorded from library CDs. Opera in his-now-our house was so ubiquitous as to go unremarked. I was curious, then, when I found Frank standing still in the middle of a room. Not knowing what had halted him, and intrigued by the inward, almost beatific look on his ...

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