“Find your eternal link.” So Oathe13 is advised towards the beginning of Tom[my] Mayberry’s revisioning of William Blake’s Visions of the Daughters of Albion, his story of “Oothoon,” the “soft soul of America” journeying to a foredoomed consummation. Blake’s poem is at heart the lamentation of a woman whose seduction at the hands of the thunderous Bromion deprives her of a promised fulfillment in the arms of her lover, Theotormon, who, himself tormented by the despoiling of his intended, abandons her to a future of anguish and solitude.

As Raymond Daniels reacts anaemically to a blood donation he had given earlier in the day, he passes in and out of a dream-space in which his identity undergoes a transition into a kind of Blakean subconscious. That dream space is the story-within-a-story of Oathe13 himself, where Raymond’s imaginative other transforms the anaemia he suffers from (in every sense of the word) into a rich phantasmagoria of sensual delights, trials and triumphs.