notes 01.28.2009

Patrick H. Hutton: History as an Art of Memory
Dominic O’Brien: Learn to Remember
Dame Yates: Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition
Dame Yates: Theatre of the World

remember 50 discreet items, not verse or performance

theatres as memory palaces
marginal/underground history
the occult -- the practical
the interior

things you’ll need to know for the test (use the unusual):

• cooler -- plastic, blue, white lid, ice inside 2 feet wide
• Nay b-day
• Sutter’s Melpomene -- Mel Gibson eating a pomegranate
• Michael Sexson’s blood drive date -- March 17 St Patrick’s, green blood

“I saw it in my mind”
Erin and liberal studies

system of locations -- 9 items

• thermostat
• blackboard
• projector screen
• quiet desk
• overhead projector
• old desk
• bulletin board
• snowman 3 push pins
• weird symbol F 7 pushpin

Coleridge: 30 days hath September -- metrical form
iambic pentameter
cabinet of curiosity -- cure, care

Kane
32 myth, poor remembrance
41 oak and ash -- Moon East increase West rest

Yates
4 heightened sight -- Ulysses ch 3 “ineluctable modality of the visible”
p.11 ram’s testicles -- testify, testimony, tests

Sexson “it’s all poetry in the oral world”