For next meeting: blog about one of Ong's memorable one liners (the alphabet was only invented once, sound envelopes while sight isolates, etc) and/or go forward to recapture that lost moment as a child.
Be able to say what your 51 memorized items will consist of.
(pg 270) Foer: "It's about taking a stand against forgetfulness...its about nurturing something pprofoundly and essentially human."
Memory (mneme) and recollection (anamnesis)
Hermetic: becomes airtight, something you isolate from other things
Lethe is the river of forgetfulness...root of word Lethal, because the most lethal thing you can do is forget.
This, the subject of memory, is what you should become obsessed with.
Jesus said you must become as a little child--go forward to become what you were.
Look at Nick's blog--painting of Picasso with memorable images is a mnemonic of war? Startlingly original.
When we are three years old we see things better than other people.
Puff the Magic Dragon--dragons live forever but not so little boys...and Charlotte the spider lives on in her web of writing.
Everything was fresh and new in childhood. To anything as it really is is startling (look at Ashely's bedroom blog)
Annie Dillard--best way to spend your life is reading stories.
Memory itself is the mother of the muses, the nine women that are so integral to inspiring us at age three.
You already know everything, you have just forgotten it.
If you get a chance, read "Re-Visioning Psychology" by James Hillman about Renaissance humanism.
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