Hash for February 11, 2009

- Talking of Ong's Nine Characteristics of Orallity
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- Connection with Ong's Third Point (redundant and copious):
-Talking of "The Song of the Moon Bone" from Kane and how it has to do with the repetitive nature of orality..... and and and of of of
- Sexson participated in the paoti meetings of the Cheyenne that started at 6 at night and ended at 6 in the morning in the early 70's.

- Connection with Ong's Fourth (conservative):
-Many new newspapers are now talking about things that haven't even happened yet because news that happened yesterday is old news
-McCain sitting with Thalia.
-Cliche's connect us to eachother.... the old connected to the young.
*****Blog - A whole conversation in cliche's*****


- Connection with Ong's Fifth (close to the human life world):
-People programmed by Sesame Street lose interest in information such as the list of names at the beginning of the Bible that make all of us literarians bored out of our minds.
-The only statistics that counted in Orality are those that were pragmatic and meaningful.

Connection with Ong's Sixth (antagonistically):
-Therpischore flyting and dancing.
-There is good flyting, praising however.

Connection with Ong's Seventh (Empathetic and Participatory):
- MUST participate and bring others into it.... you enter the world of the story and bring others in too. *Not like a book where you are by yourself.
- We are epically empathetic for the person who participated in the stealing of our pictures on the tac board.

Connections with Ong's Eight (Homeostatic):
- Adaptive to the things that are current to keep itself around and new.
- Snowman adapts to never melt from the board.

Connection with Ong's Nine (Situational, not Abstract):
- Everything is very concrete. Not fleeting.
- "The man was blameless" -literary
- "The man was beautiful in the way a warrior before battle is beautiful" -oral
- People see things that are useful to them, not stupid shapes or analytical processes.
-Purely seen or heard as the situation you are in, not anything else.

Talking about a movie he went to as a child:
"All the King's Men" - Heavy Politics - He thought it was a movie about an elementary school that falls to pieces and kills a lot of elementary school children because all he remembered was the quick scene where the kids die in this school incident. Oral thought process. The thing that sticks most is the most important part.

Kevin will start class talking about Yates when talking about Aristotle and Plato and what they have to do with soul and the subject of memory.

Important - pg. 65 - Ong

Act 1, Scene 5 - Hamlet - "Remember Me"

Jesus holding bread and wine - "Do this and remember me"

What does Krishna mean, what does Jesus mean, and what do the ghost mean when they say "remember me".