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.

MSU Top 100 books

notes 02.04.2009

fascinated by others' 50-lists -- what am I going to do ... ???

more better notes:
Chris
Kari
Helena The Cave of Routine
Nick Yates 3 and Aquinas
Brandon cycles and reciprocity
John wisdom and ignorance, teachers and students

past present future
ouroborous

Groundhog Day
Richard Francis Burton
Parataxis
Miranda’s attendants Muses history/myth archetypes
passive recall/ active imagination

Yates

• images
• p. 41 memorizing discreet items
• scientific method

Ong

• orality/literacy
  

stations of the cross
magus

Beckett, Samuel. Endgame.
Lord, Albert B. Singer of Tales.
Vost, Kevin. Memorize the Faith.
Sexson, Michael. Memory, Medievalism, Cyberspace, And the Soul. Soundings, 1994

Roy Blount Jr: Alphabet Juice

NY Times: first chapter Alphabet Juice
BookTV: Roy Blount Jr at the 2008 Miami Book Fair

Sutter, Sexson, Solitude, Solidarity ...

So much happens every day!

to Sutter: as you suspected, I was in fact glued to technology all day Inauguration Day (online, C-Span, MSNBC, PBS, CNN, even Fox! for demented dittohead factor) ... brief interludes of walking around the back yard in the windy cold to grok what was happening (a friend said she "kept feeling like Europe must have felt at the end of WWII as their countries were liberated by the Allies" :) ...


and remembering:

1960
JFK Inaugural I was ten

1963
June Medgar Evers assassination he was my father's age
September Birmingham bombings I was their age
November JFK assassination I cried in the cloakroom and a classmate laughed at me




1964
June Chaney, Goodman, Schwerner the laughing men who murdered them haunt me to this day

1965
February Malcolm X assassination

1967
October Che assassination

1968
April MLK assassination
June RFK assassination
August Chicago

1969
December Draft lottery
Fred Hampton assassination I had just met him

1970
May Kent State

1972
McGovern/Nixon my first vote

1973
September 11 Salvador Allende
September 23 Pablo Neruda

1980
December 8 John Lennon
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i fell in love ... a daughter and a son
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.
.

1999
my father died

2000
Gore/Bush

2001
September 9/11 I was getting ready for work
October 12-26 Patriot Act

2002
Paul Wellstone former professor

2003
Invasion of Iraq

2006
my lover, the father of my children, died

2007
obama
i return to college

2008
obama
Unjust Deserts
by Gar Alperovitz and Lew Daly

suggested by Michael Sexson

two fascinating pieces

1. The Chronicle Review: The End of Solitude
2. The NY Review of Books: Google & the Future of Books