Probably right, its about Blake but I doubt Jhon Balance would have been unaware of the other image the title conjours up : that of HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu, who's followers recite the mantra "In his house in R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming."
I don't know enough about Blake to know how the lyrics might apply to him, but where it talks about working out a means of escape and crop circles that would seem to apply to Cthulhu.
Also the phrase "The space between people and things" echoes the phrase used by Lovecraft in the Dunwich Horror : "The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them, they walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen" - Cthulhu was one of the "Great Old Ones."
I'm fairly sure Coil are familiar with Lovecraft and Cthulhu -
a) they just would be as people with an interest in the occult
b) Tentacles rising out of the water on the old Threshold house logo, and the squiddy design on the inside of Unnatural History II are both fairly suspicious.
Probably right, its about Blake but I doubt Jhon Balance would have been unaware of the other image the title conjours up : that of HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu, who's followers recite the mantra "In his house in R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming."
I don't know enough about Blake to know how the lyrics might apply to him, but where it talks about working out a means of escape and crop circles that would seem to apply to Cthulhu.
Also the phrase "The space between people and things" echoes the phrase used by Lovecraft in the Dunwich Horror : "The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them, they walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen" - Cthulhu was one of the "Great Old Ones."
I'm fairly sure Coil are familiar with Lovecraft and Cthulhu - a) they just would be as people with an interest in the occult b) Tentacles rising out of the water on the old Threshold house logo, and the squiddy design on the inside of Unnatural History II are both fairly suspicious.