Hash for February 27, 2009

- We will be going through the our groups and giving epithets today.

- ***Google pictures of story tellers and oral tradition people and blog on them***

- Next week we will hear from Sutter on the Yates book.

- Talked of the stations of the cross and the ceremonies involved within the Catholic church for an oral tradition.

- Freud said, " Give me a person until the age of six, and then you can have them."

- Talked of the "Catch 22" satirizing and humor and what it has to do with the things we make fun of (such as literature) in the class.

- Talked of people who believe things "because they're in word....written in stone....signed in blood"
- The protestants in the family who believe this.
- The lawyers whos only matter is if you signed a document or not.

- Because Sexson forgot something, Sutter introduces us to Ramone today.

- Ramon Lull, (google Lullism) pg. 173, he introduces movement into memory, it is the most important aspect of his memory system... the memory systems we've seen so far are single images on shelf, his move around.
- The circle with 9 letters within it on board... B C D E F G H I K. The virtues of God are within circle. The Bohemian Ideals

- Can you return a book to the oral culture? Finnegans Wake came the closest.

- The class is reading from Finnegans Wake. The book does not end... it ends in the middle of a sentence. Stops with circular totalitary type thinking.

- Finnegan's Wake says something different every time you open it. It always means something different. Always.

- "The Ballad of Finnegan's Wake" is an old fable from Irish Lore of a man who falls off a ladder, has a wake, and gets up at it.... maybe, I need to find it online.

- My Group's Epithets: Crazy Coffee Carly, Bright Eyed Kevin, Big Rich, Totalogic Tai, Snake-Haired Kayla, Red Damsel Danielle Hawly, Summer Breeze, James "The Rat" Kushman, Chris Scribbles the Scribe