notes 02.09.2009

Wed Feb 11: Yates ch.3 Plato and Aristotle

Ong ch. 3 amnesia, dancing and passing tests
pp. 37-56 nine count-em attributes of oral cultures

1. additive
2. aggregative
3. redundant
4. conservative (sit down and hush up McCain)
   
5. close to human
6. agonist
7. empathic
8. homeostasis
9. situational/concrete, not abstract/logical

cf. plots to ruin our lives:

• Sesame Street syllogism -- A, B, therefore C
  
• Strunk & White

Shakespeare is speaking to a COMMUNITY of listeners, from the top hats to the cheap seats

Jack Goody: The Domestication of the Savage Mind

face the music
or ...
let's face the music … and DANCE!

Nat King Cole sings Irving Berlin

There may be trouble ahead, but while there's moonlight and music
and love and romance, let's face the music and dance

Before the fiddlers have fled, before they ask us to pay the bill
and while we still have the chance, let's face the music and dance

Soon, we'll be without the moon, humming a different tune, and then ...
there may be teardrops to shed, so
while there's moonlight and music and love and romance
let's face the music and dance, dance
let's face the music and dance

the dancers? Rita Hayworth, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse,
Ava Gardner, Sophia Loren, Deborah Kerr, Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Katharine Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart ...




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