Hash for January 28, 2009

Books Passed Around:

History as an Art of Memory - Patrick Hutton

Learn to Remember - Dominic O'Brien

Theatre of the World - France A. Yates

Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition - Frances A. Yates

Why, even after the age of the printing press, were people still obsessed with medieval memory techniques?

The interior world is just as infinite as the exterior world. We are here to access the cosmos within us all.

We need an image to remember things that are a little irrelevant - Images

***Next appointment Dr. Sexson has to give blood to the red cross. He last gave it on January 20th (inauguration). His next sign up is a little over two months, St. Patrick's Day. March 17th.....Can't forget this because the receptionist was told by him that he would give green blood. Will be on test.***

Chapter 1 - Yates - We have to suppose we are the attorney at a trial. Someone was poisoned. MS talked about the narrative that was written about the man lying in bed.... written so that people can remember it. In his left hand was a cup, some tablets, and testicles of a ram.

Test - Testimony - Testify - Testicle - Comes from a person who was going to testify having to put their actual hand on that part of the anatomy of a man before they testified. We get our word test today from this. Test for John's Birthday on the day of the test, so now we think of Ram's Balls when we think of his B-Day. :) We also need to know the cooler for the test, Sutter's way of memory for Polyhymnia, and maybe who has beautiful eyes... :)

G GRAMAD - His Liberal Arts from the Medieval Era again.

Our room:

Thermostat

(Off-Blue) Black Board

Screen

The "Quiet" Desk

Projector

Brown Table

Cork Board

"Let it Snow" Snowman w/ three push pins

Sign of the F's w/ seven push pins

(Put the Nine Muses onto these little things in the room)

<---***This here is the real assignment for Friday.***

Our assignment now up in class:

Ong

Kane

-pg. 32 - Myth & poor remembrance

-pg. 41 - Oak + Ash

"In the oral world, it's all poetry." -MS

Yates

-pg. 4 - Heightened sight

***Assignment (not really) - Go to old people's houses and look at their relics. You'll see their cabinet of curiosities.***

"You can do it!" -MS when talking of memorizing the 50 things you will memorize.

Another assignment (not really) is to just go out and survive in nature without any technology. We'd just be naked. It'd be hard.