Hash for April 01, 2009

Talking schedules:

***8th of April is Second Quiz... Monday of next week discusses the quiz. Responsible for 4,5,6 in Ong. Yates up to Bruno. Finnegan's Wake Article. Ramone Lull. Camillo. We contribute to the creation. Bring question.****

*** Assignment - Comment on Kevin's Paper***

Friday - meeting in class with groups

6th of April - Talk of quiz
8th of April - Quiz
10th of April - Holiday
13th of April - Review of Exam
15th of April - Group 1+2
17th of April - 3-4
20th of April - 5-6
22nd of April - Begin our Individual Oral Presentations.... getting in 10 people a day. Going to be asked to be scytsophrenic. Formal.... beginning, middle, and end. Clarity. Stick to literate rules (MLA, paragraphs, ya know! Then be crazy and redundant and informative in our Oral Presentations (papers due during presentations).
1st of May - Conclusions and Evaluations
7th of May - Thursday of Finals Week - 6 pm - Final Test

Strunken White rules - Tai's Presentation - talking of our papers and who said we need to write and write a certain way. Typographic space.

pg. 130 - Ong - 2nd Paragraph end with quote by Yeats - "More Diffuse Affects" - Learned tongues textualize the language of the world.

"The Debate between Orality and Literacy is kind of a fake one - as Ong sets them up." -MS

"Writing is something we come naturally by, speaking is something we learn." -MS quoting Jacque Derida.

Finishing our talk of Finnegan's Wake Article:

Explanations again of Ramone Lull, Camillo, Bruno.
pg. 204 Yeats- Bruno explanations. ":The Philosopher's Stone in the psyche..." Astral Images. Such a memory would be the memory of a divine man. "A Magus..." The Divination of man was considered occult.

"Joyce, like Camillo before him, found himself at a loss to explain what it was he was creating."
The squaring of the circle, the circling of the square... The Mandala... like no other book that ever existed and still a replication of every book ever made.
Trying to capture orality before writing even came about... before ever writing.
"Cock and Bull Story"... Tristram Shandy... A Shaggy Dog story... A story that has no point, no end, beginning or point.
Portmanteau - One word during double, triple whatever duties. Joyce uses Lewis Carrol's word to the utmost in Finnegan's Wake.
***Aegypt - To Follow Bruno out of this class. Use this book.***

Triangles vs. Boxes (Circles and Squares) once again:

Sophocles - Ong - Great person of the literate tradition.
Sheharazad for Orality

Book of Judges - Oral Tradition in Spades - Redundancies and Repetitions in original forms. More powerful in its pure form.

***For Friday come up with more things to put into triangle and box.***