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"
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