The Sirens Sweetly Singing

One of my favorite songs by the rock band Cream is Tales of Brave Ulysses, which features some terrific guitar playing by Eric Clapton. 

In the last post, I pointed out that sensation is the mast of our ship, which we need to be tied to. The analogy is broad and the allegory is flawed: it's meant to serve only as a picture of us standing upright in the m…