Hash for February 25, 2009

82.5 average on the test..... He said it was either: A - Too Easy, B - We're Too Smart, C - We're Learning Our Memory Techniques. (We decided mix of b and c)

Friday we'll talk about epithets within our groups.

Be prepared one week from Monday the 2nd of March to begin reciting 50 memorized things. The important thing there will be to talk of your technique.

Ong was a Jesuit Priest - doing his dissertation and Marshall McLuhan was his tutor (Northfrop Frye was around that school at the same time.)

- Ong was extremely organized.

"Lots of scripts but only one alphabet" pg. 88......Ong?

Sexson's "Re-Membering Finnegan" link, which on my blog isn't a link but a web address you need to copy and paste. Pain, I know.

pg. 100 Ong - "Writing is a solipsistic operation."

pg 92 Ong - Grammar comes from "magical lore" in Middle English. Glamour is also related.

First written documents were lists/inventories. (Not Lit Majors but Business)

Finnegan's Wake is a list and wonderful connection to the oral life world.
***Assignment was to figure out what you love hearing, writing, listening to***

Henry V part 1 - Falstaff's List - One of the most famous

Chris went over how having no vowels in Hebrew is like having personalized license plate. Readable but something's missing.

Here's the address to a Hebrew paper: http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/newspapers/halevanon/html/halevanon.pdf

Hebrew did eventually evolve to have vowels of sorts.

And we all recited the alphabet song because we're brainwashed in 2nd or 3rd grade to know this and be taken from our oral mindset!!!