Jennifer recites Kubla Khan poem in a manner that illustrates the concept that language comes from the rhythms of the body.
(pg 128) Moonwalking with Einstein--Chapter 6, memorizing poetry (rhyme and alliteration will help)
First Chapter of Kane (pg 21) Human history divided into different "liths"...Kane romanticizes the Stone Age.
With agriculture come property, and then state, armies, class system, hierarchy, HOARDING.
Read the entirety of Sexson's article "Re-membering Finnigans Wake"
Read Jennifer's blog--her purse as a portable memory theater
Joyce's book is different every time you read it--ultimate oral tradition/high brow mix
Carnal--words that turn into flesh
FW is meant to be read with 15-20 people out loud.
Other authors with this mixed quality: Samuel Beckett, Vladamir Nabokov.
Nabokov: author of Lolita, Pale Fire, Ada
"Speak Memory": Nabokov's autobiography--artful. Ch6: he describes his lifelong obsession with lepidoptery
Most autobiographies are artless...why?
Kane's work hearkens us to return to the hunter/gatherer stage...to deal with animals on a daily basis.
Agriculture mythology centers around death and rebirth in the earth.
What separates us from the ecstasies of those initiations?
Do not speak of gods, but animals...the knowledge of patterns is key.
Proust "In Remembrance of Things Past"
Friday, March 30, 2012
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Notes 3-26
Read Ashely, Seth's blog
We tend to dismiss Oral literature because it seems to lack depth.
Banned words: exactly, like, just
For the Musey Rooms:
Don't think about what Sexson wants for the Musey Rooms--what can you do? No model to follow, but take into consideration the examples of Bruno, Camillo, etc
Musey Rooms should contain both archetypes (model/form) and signature (your own)
Language tends to originate with heartfelt, guttural sounds that are fundamentally rhythmic (music)
Eleusinian Mysteries--a Musey Room where people are inducted through doing, seeing, and showing--creates something that is memorable.
Empathetic--one of the nine Ong traits
You enter into the same world and participate sensuously through language
Even the sounds that you might otherwise dismiss are important
The artist, the magician: who hear the music in places where you might otherwise not hear it.
Kane's definition: Myth is not those stories we tell of gods/goddess as these are already literature. We need to get behind the stories to rhythmic grunts.
Myth is the sound, the music made when the earth is singing to itself.
We tend to dismiss Oral literature because it seems to lack depth.
Banned words: exactly, like, just
For the Musey Rooms:
Don't think about what Sexson wants for the Musey Rooms--what can you do? No model to follow, but take into consideration the examples of Bruno, Camillo, etc
Musey Rooms should contain both archetypes (model/form) and signature (your own)
Language tends to originate with heartfelt, guttural sounds that are fundamentally rhythmic (music)
Eleusinian Mysteries--a Musey Room where people are inducted through doing, seeing, and showing--creates something that is memorable.
Empathetic--one of the nine Ong traits
You enter into the same world and participate sensuously through language
Even the sounds that you might otherwise dismiss are important
The artist, the magician: who hear the music in places where you might otherwise not hear it.
Kane's definition: Myth is not those stories we tell of gods/goddess as these are already literature. We need to get behind the stories to rhythmic grunts.
Myth is the sound, the music made when the earth is singing to itself.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Scars
On my right arm I have an indentation a little smaller than a pencil eraser. When I went to Seattle for the first time at the age of 8, I walked through Pikes Place Market close behind my cousins and felt a sharp, bee sting-like pain. A stooped woman with thinning white hair, gnarled hands, enormous yellowing glasses and a pink cardigan was on my right, arm outstretched and casually talking to her friend while she accidentally burned my arm in the crowded place. My family scooped ice from around the smelly fish to put on the burn. Even after the ice melted, my hands still smelled like fish. I'm amazed at how vivid this memory still is to me today, but I see now how it demands memorability through the many senses it invokes as well as the visible talisman of the scar.
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Notes 3-23
Read Jennifer and Ashley's blog!
Please blog about an experience that you will never forget aided by the visual reminder of a scar.
The past is there for you to rediscover
Carry a talisman--the visual reminder
Contained in the womb--circular--we are "ripped" from
When we are born we cry for having been inducted into this world of fools.
It is a violent separation from wholeness
(Image of a whole circle, two halves of a circle, and a circle drawn with a dotted line)
Kubla could re-member--put the pieces back together.
Separation, initiation, transformation (death and rebirth: recreated the harmony of beginning through the agency of your imagination)
The key to everything is music--the women with the vision of wholeness and power--can I create within me? The Kubla Khan poem poses.
Carnal--knowledge of the flesh.
Please blog about an experience that you will never forget aided by the visual reminder of a scar.
The past is there for you to rediscover
Carry a talisman--the visual reminder
Contained in the womb--circular--we are "ripped" from
When we are born we cry for having been inducted into this world of fools.
It is a violent separation from wholeness
(Image of a whole circle, two halves of a circle, and a circle drawn with a dotted line)
Kubla could re-member--put the pieces back together.
Separation, initiation, transformation (death and rebirth: recreated the harmony of beginning through the agency of your imagination)
The key to everything is music--the women with the vision of wholeness and power--can I create within me? The Kubla Khan poem poses.
Carnal--knowledge of the flesh.
Notes 3-21
Look at Tia and Nick's blogs!
Myth can be defined as the song the earth sings to itself.
Tia's blog--Stephen Greenblatt's "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern"
Bruno thought he was bringing together poet, artist and philosopher--all as one.
How to manipulate your mind to construct memories to defy nature?
"Your Brain On Fiction"--Nick's blog
The more challenging the text, the more significant the rewiring of the brain is. You become what you read.
"Re-membering Finnigans Wake" by Dr. Sexson (we are most asleep when we are awake and vice versa)
The medium is the message
Watch "The Sunset Limited" by Cormac McCarthy
Myth can be defined as the song the earth sings to itself.
Tia's blog--Stephen Greenblatt's "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern"
Bruno thought he was bringing together poet, artist and philosopher--all as one.
How to manipulate your mind to construct memories to defy nature?
"Your Brain On Fiction"--Nick's blog
The more challenging the text, the more significant the rewiring of the brain is. You become what you read.
"Re-membering Finnigans Wake" by Dr. Sexson (we are most asleep when we are awake and vice versa)
The medium is the message
Watch "The Sunset Limited" by Cormac McCarthy
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Notes 3-19
Please look at Seth, Levi, Jennifer the Charmed, and Jennifer's awesome blogs.
Question for the class: how can we regain the qualities of orality?
Spend some time looking at either Camillo, Bruno, or Lull's system of memory for next blog.
This is a complex business, diagramming your brain.
Your final presentation of your musey room should not be an exploration of it, but rather an iniating of the class into its secrets. It should include at least a dozen different items, none of which have been memorized previously for this class. What is the artwork going on in your musey room?
Informed--facts are integral in the formation of the soul. Psyche=soul
Freud: personal, remember everything that ever happened to you
Yung: transpersonal, remember everything that happened to everyone else--the collective unconscious
The people you fall in love with takes on archetypes and mythology
Our personal life historically catalogued is nothing unless connected to these larger themes and images
Remember vs. Re-member: to put the pieces back together
The source: atom vs Adam.
Bruno is everywhere in Joyce's novel Finnegan's Wake--the freethinker well out of the box of Western thought.
Question for the class: how can we regain the qualities of orality?
Spend some time looking at either Camillo, Bruno, or Lull's system of memory for next blog.
This is a complex business, diagramming your brain.
Your final presentation of your musey room should not be an exploration of it, but rather an iniating of the class into its secrets. It should include at least a dozen different items, none of which have been memorized previously for this class. What is the artwork going on in your musey room?
Informed--facts are integral in the formation of the soul. Psyche=soul
Freud: personal, remember everything that ever happened to you
Yung: transpersonal, remember everything that happened to everyone else--the collective unconscious
The people you fall in love with takes on archetypes and mythology
Our personal life historically catalogued is nothing unless connected to these larger themes and images
Remember vs. Re-member: to put the pieces back together
The source: atom vs Adam.
Bruno is everywhere in Joyce's novel Finnegan's Wake--the freethinker well out of the box of Western thought.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Notes 3-7
Over the break: please choose one of the people whose memory systems are described in detail by Yates (Camillo, Bruno, Lull) and write about your sense of how this memory theater works.
Musey Room Presentation April 16--you are not simply introducing us, but inducting us into the mysteries of your musey room and its mystic, magic, spirituality.
An updated syllabus will be emailed.
Look at Tearful Tristian's blog.
The oral tradition is copious and redundant while the literate tradition values simplicity and directness (the social system rewards writing in this way. However, there is value in exploring writing using oral values)
There are no rules, just to know what rule you are breaking.
Look at John Crowley's "Little, Big"--the further in you go, the bigger it gets. Influenced by the works of Yates (magical sense of reality rather than a "real" reality)
Read "Engine Summer"
By reading, your life has been added to, extended.
How can you use literacy to reclaim aspects of the oral tradition that have been lost with the onset of literate culture?
Goal: To become truthful speakers, to make words like glass so the face comes through--to create transparency.
What does it mean to speak truthfully?
Musey Room Presentation April 16--you are not simply introducing us, but inducting us into the mysteries of your musey room and its mystic, magic, spirituality.
An updated syllabus will be emailed.
Look at Tearful Tristian's blog.
The oral tradition is copious and redundant while the literate tradition values simplicity and directness (the social system rewards writing in this way. However, there is value in exploring writing using oral values)
There are no rules, just to know what rule you are breaking.
Look at John Crowley's "Little, Big"--the further in you go, the bigger it gets. Influenced by the works of Yates (magical sense of reality rather than a "real" reality)
Read "Engine Summer"
By reading, your life has been added to, extended.
How can you use literacy to reclaim aspects of the oral tradition that have been lost with the onset of literate culture?
Goal: To become truthful speakers, to make words like glass so the face comes through--to create transparency.
What does it mean to speak truthfully?
Notes 3-5
Secondary orality will be on the test--reclaiming some qualities of the oral world
All things move in the direction of perfecting itself--the tragic drama
Aristotle: Euripides was the most tragic, but Sophocles, the author of the Oedipus trilogy was the greatest because he gave us the definition of tragedy
Lacuna--an unfilled space or internal gap
The detective story is an example of a linear novel
Exposition--Rising--Climax--Falling--Denouement
Episodic: The Odyssey and The Iliad--loosely connected parts or events
The literate world has "one correct version of the story", while the oral has no single, coherent truth for any story. Piling of stories upon stories.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a wide variety of things to be experienced.
Peter Ramus-took out all the images in the memory system
Hermetic tradition and the guide of souls--the psychopompous (psyche=soul)
Memory and imagination: Hermetic-through metamorphosis and alchemy, the purification of the soul.
Naustic notion--drug down into the world and forget everything
"The Alchemist", "The Man Who Fell to Earth"--fall into forgetfulness by the distractions of the Earth. Sex, drugs, rock and roll...
Literacy literally means letter.
All things move in the direction of perfecting itself--the tragic drama
Aristotle: Euripides was the most tragic, but Sophocles, the author of the Oedipus trilogy was the greatest because he gave us the definition of tragedy
Lacuna--an unfilled space or internal gap
The detective story is an example of a linear novel
Exposition--Rising--Climax--Falling--Denouement
Episodic: The Odyssey and The Iliad--loosely connected parts or events
The literate world has "one correct version of the story", while the oral has no single, coherent truth for any story. Piling of stories upon stories.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a wide variety of things to be experienced.
Peter Ramus-took out all the images in the memory system
Hermetic tradition and the guide of souls--the psychopompous (psyche=soul)
Memory and imagination: Hermetic-through metamorphosis and alchemy, the purification of the soul.
Naustic notion--drug down into the world and forget everything
"The Alchemist", "The Man Who Fell to Earth"--fall into forgetfulness by the distractions of the Earth. Sex, drugs, rock and roll...
Literacy literally means letter.
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