Hash for March 27, 2009

Synesthesia (sp?) - a person who hears colors... going back to primary orality

Walter Ong - pg. 122 - Print encourages closure. A sense of what is written has been finalized.

(Introduction, Body, and Conclusion)

Model for the storyteller is Shahara Zad. She figures out how to keep them going so she doesn't die. Her stories do not have a finalization.

Think about TV shows that never end.... Lost, Heroes, and such..... secondary orality makes them never end. With a literate society, things have endings. Where is society moving?

Websites, Blogs are all just like this... never ending and always changing. Always changing.

Kindle gets passed around. We talk about the amazing book technologies and how to keep hundreds of books with you.... your iphone, kindle, other phones, etc. Quite amazing now.

***Aristotle was the first to say that a story needed a beginning, body, and conclusion like Oedipus Rex, the first detective story.***

Finnegan's Wake now subject.... going back to his story, third paragraph...

Talking about grunts and moans... oooo... ahhhhh..... sounds. Linguists believe this is how language originated. Chain gangs and dwarves in the mine.

"Before books there was speech, and before speech there were mute gestures."

Echolalia - Sexson says that babies are wonderful at it. It is the joy you take in hearing any sound you make. Their gutteral bubbles and gurgles that they love to make.

When pure sound becomes carnal, it is echolalia.

****Assignment - Listen for Echolalia, study it and makle your own. Blog on it too.***

Joyce read Vico, who understood that thunder bolts change things. Joyce onomonopiatizes lightning many times with a hundred letter word in his book.

Musey Room - Joyce's word for museum.


"In order to remember, you have to be dismembered." -MS

A book is tactile. Lisa said she laughed at the "Black Book of Colors" because black is the absence of colors.

***Turn to pg. 203 in Yeats, she says something about Bruno. **** Important pg. for next exam.**** The Googlable Guy! (Next book title)

***BLOG ABOUT YOUR TERM PAPER FOR MONDAY. HE'LL WANT THESIS STATEMENT FOR IT.***

Rich is here, Kayla, Carly, Danielle, no James, Kevin, Bri, Tai

*****My boundaries group meets at 4:30..... Thursday next week....

Lynn, Alex, Brian, Claire..... not in class anymore...