- Passing around a list for us to know what group we're in.
Books being passed around today:
The Singer of Tales - Albert Lord (passed around so we can talk about it)
The Gutenberg Galaxy - Marshall McLuhan
The Castle of Crossed Destinies - Ital Calvino
- Took a trip around the room for the muses
- Turned off all the lights and Zach told us his experience in High School with the Allegory of the Cave... teacher projecting his shadow on the cave.
"Noble Savage" - people more in touch with the true and not tainted by literature
Kain made this point, "Myth is the telling and the doing, literature is about reading of things people use to tell and do."
- Memory is the act of creation, building.... not just recalling. Not all memories are there because they "really" happened.... or does it even matter?
- We're talking about everyone's blog: Richard's blog about cliche's, Homeric Question in quite a few.
****Assignment - Produce an epithet for one other person in this class.****
- Proverbs are part of the oral tradition.
- Two characters proverbial in Hamlet: Ophelia's father (proverbial character)
- Expletives are for comedy and orallity.
- Wonderful performance by Clare from "The Tempest"
- Our great criticism of our chosen path in life/school is that it is IRRELEVANT (ah!).
- Make a list of the cliches you use all the time - ***WOULD MAKE A GOOD BLOG!***
- Chris told us of her rats and the memories they have.
- Anthropomorphizing - Making the animals feel and talk and think logically.
- In Kane, myth tellers are people who were around way before literature, and that they are connected with animals.
- Rats have been studied by scientists and it has been proven they make a "laughing" noise only when they are clearly enjoying themselves.
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