notes 02.06.2009

1. epithet your group (cloud-gathering Zeus, wily Odysseus, grey-eyed Athena)
2. list your cliches

Kayla Calliope
Chris oral comp techniques: repetition, formulae, cliches, epithets, expletives
Zach Plato’s cave -- in the dark
Ben lit <--> myth

• performance -- memory -- active imagination -- lying
• “music of the earth itself”
• The Book --> authoritarian, intolerant, bounded

Zach Hermes -- liar -- Oscar Wilde
Rich Ong cliches and proverbs
Claire Ariel, attention “I see (not think) …”
Jared comic books
Tai practical navigation
Robert
Nick
Chris? where are you?? there you are : rats

• Ruskin’s Pathetic Fallacy
• Splinter
• B. F. Skinner
• Do Elephants Cry?
• Koko
• John Lilly’s dolphins

the theatre of the skull

sham_an Sexson

McLuhan, Marshall. The Gutenberg Galaxy.
--. The Medium is the Massage.
Calvino, Italo. Castle of Crossed Destinies.
Lord, Albert. B. The Singer of Tales.
Draaisma, Douwe. Metaphors of Memory.

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