Word: vapours
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sketchbook a "Spiritual Communication." Possibly Blake intended it to be a recording of a conversation he had with the ghost of a flea (he sketched several of these: they look rather like Jiminy Cricket). The "communication" reads: "Can you think I can endure to be considered as a vapour arising from your food? I will leave you if you doubt I am of no greater importance than a butterfly...
...they come? A girl all flaxon haired commented to her friend in smooth tones that left a vapour-trail of sophistication--meanwhile throwing a partly used ice cream cone down before her--"I don't normally come to these meat markets, but I was thirsty...