Thursday, February 9, 2012

Notes 2-8

Dr. Sexson has replaced the term paper with a poster revealing your memory palace and its secret passageways.

(pg 47) Yates "Behold in the plains and caves..."

Read Nick's blog: we enter a state of self hypnosis when we read books.
Renaissance humanism--viewing men's powers as divine powers

Imagional: completely and wholly real because it is imagional, mean it truly exists.
Charlotte the spider was a good friend and a good writer--a rare combination.
Niccolo Machiavelli believed that it was better to be feared than loved (see "The Prince"). He held parties for people who didn't exist in the real world.

Iconoclasm--is the deliberate destruction of religious icons and other monuments, usually with political/religious motives

The spoken word is ephemeral, moves out of existence the moment it exists.

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