One of the coolest, most eccentric, & arguably completely insane professors I’ve ever had the privilege of knowing was a bit of a William Blake cultist. As a ma

One of the coolest, most eccentric, & arguably completely insane professors I’ve ever had the privilege of knowing was a bit of a William Blake cultist. As a matter of fact, I believe he profoundly claimed he was the reincarnation of William. Made a church praising him & everything. Ridiculously talented artist, & I recently found out Steve Buscemi apparently has a private collection of his artwork. Local to me for some time, he leaves behind a mural at Ohio University & various artworks in random places around the county. He apparently sold an earlier house of his that was completely covered in his magnificent paintings to a friend… who he knew had plans of painting over everything & was surprisingly okay with. Only a few pictures of it exist & it’s extremely sad IMO. For the curious: https://woub.org/2018/11/29/but-how-could-he-be-forgotten-looking-back-on-aethelred-eldridge/ https://woub.org/2018/11/29/but-how-could-he-be-forgotten-lo... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aethelred_Eldridge https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aethelred_Eldridge https://theoldhouselife.com/2021/09/11/23-acres-golganooza-circa-1830s-located-in-ohio-289000/ https://theoldhouselife.com/2021/09/11/23-acres-golganooza-c... (this is not the earlier house mentioned) https://aethelredeldridge.com https://aethelredeldridge.com (He has a personal website that I recall being much different than this, but I currently cannot seem to find it) https://www.ohio.edu/fine-arts/alumni-magazine/aethelred-eldridge-1930-2018-remembering-legendary-artist-and-teacher https://www.ohio.edu/fine-arts/alumni-magazine/aethelred-eld... https://essexflowers.us/AETHELRED-ELDRIDGE https://essexflowers.us/AETHELRED-ELDRIDGE Edit: I believe this is his personal site…. not sure why it’s down as it hadn’t been too long ago I’d checked it out. https://web.archive.org/web/2019*/Albionawake.com https://web.archive.org/web/2019*/Albionawake.com (Also, you can pull the site from archive.ph - was going to include here but it’s taking a while) Anyways, super cool dude. Wish I would’ve gotten to be around him a bit more. If you’re ever feeling lost in life, consider being the reincarnation of William Blake.