man friendship

In a passage vehemently promoting the shameful execution of one?s will to an extreme that advocates excess, ruthlessness, pride, and even murder and folly in the name of forging one?s own path, the suggestion of building friendships seems somewhat irrelevant and arbitrary. Blake?s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell places great importance upon experiencing the not yet experienced and acting upon one?s desires, and it can be argued that the principles of compromise, dependency, and attachment that are implicit in relationships would inhibit the full exercise of one?s desires. This complication reminds me of Ralph Waldo Emerson?s ?Experience.? Emerson believed that the nature of man was to be eternally changing and that relationships put a damper of one?s self-evolution. He wished that man could have ?no covenants, but proximities.? The covenantal nature of relationships inevitably would affect the free exploratory uninhibited lifestyle Blake promotes. But perhaps the friendships Blake suggests are not the same covenantal relationships referenced by Emerson, but passionate embraces and explorations of the world.