Hash for March 06, 2009

- Chris is passing around the big book of Hebrew - The Gemara

- Helena is going to spout off a list of like 70 people that she memorized for her prayers before she went to bed.
- An experiential demonstration of what we have been discussing.

Ong - End of Chapter 5 - Beginning of 6 - ***No matter how we have rid ourselves of the oral tradition, it survives in the strangest places.***

***Rhetoric was thought to have to do with the oral tradition - but not now.***
***Typographic is more important than the Chyrographic.... printing press more important.*****

***Eisenstein - Printing press is the significant invention of last 1,000 years. No reformation without it in protestant church.... because no widespread bibles.***

- Defending the doctrinal dissertation - Privileging speech or print

Zach of the Saving Bells and Two Tongued Charlie are in the Teaching Option - Sexson wants them to do something in the oral tradition in their classes in the future.

Great Beginnings, Great Endings - A Book written by Sexson a long time ago about great beginnings and great endings in books.
- We are reading from it.

- Kubla Khan - Mantra in opening lines. Opius (Opium induced ;)

- "Sometimes what we only imagine is happening enough to satisfy us."- MS

- Pantomimes, important, period.

- "An authentic remembering gives the book back its body."- MS

Why no conflict between the book saying the same thing each time you come back to your book? You're never the same person coming back to it.

Isis remembering and recreating her husband to bring him back!