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?
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