Hash for March 30, 2009

- Passing around the term paper topics paper.

- Talking of Kevin's imagination, memory, and soul paper topics.

- Talking about "rough giraffes"

- ****Assignment - Give Kevin his criticism on his blog, because he asked****

- pg. 144 in Ong, Talking of linear, chronologic plots not coming from epics, but rather boxes within boxes coming from epics. It's Fritag's Pyramid (the triangle) + (beginning, middle, and end) + (model for the literate tradition) vs. frames within frames within frames (unrelated, repetitions, oral traditions).

- Reading of the beginning of Tristram Shandy.

- pg. 145 in Ong, singers plot narrative not by conveying information with the same way as a man of linear thought... singers remember in a public way... themes, formulas... that other singers sing.

- Discussing teachers and the square within square and how well it works sometimes with the right teacher.

- Continuing down the road of our "Finnegan's Wake Article"

- Inscription is when you go to the genuine museum and all of history is played out and you become a participant of all this history rather than an observer of it.

- Yates has three chapters dedicated to trying to understand what Bruno is doing in his memory treatises.

- In Article, he breaks Bruno and Camillo into one simple paragraph. If you uderstand Bruno's memory theatre, well, then you understand THE UNIVERSE. Stupefyingly complex. Imprisoned in terrible situation of forgetting.

- Jana the Tamer of Horses is dripping a red juice on her jacket, accident.

- We had drank from the great river of letha, and it is "lethal" because we forget.

- Though virtually forgotten today, Camillo was one of the most well known persons of the 16th century. Not content to theorize of memory theatres, he built one of wood. He built the Seven Pillars of Solomon's House of Wisdom. The arranged items in the bleachers became the show to the person on stage. You could give an amazing speech on what was in the pillars. "THEIR OWN DIVINITY" is what they reach for. This is something to remember for the test.

- Novel talked about in this class.... told we should go read it now (all about Ovid):

An Imaginary Life by David Malouf

"Best book Zack has read in a long time." + "It's the imagined clash between a literate man banished to a land of oral people."

Everything is still with you, somewhere that can't be reached.