Notes February 8, 2012

• Renaissance Humanism
• Petrarch
• carry book with them all the time
• Confessions of St. Augustine
• Chapter 10 
• everything centers on man/woman
• Term papers will be posters
•  memory palace
• Nick's blog
• hypnotized
• youtube video- needs warning
• reading= hypnosis
• Magi (magician)
• not only man is the center but the man's powers as well
• hermetic
• imaginal space
• imaginary friend
• Nicolo Machiavelli
• "better to be feared than loved"
• wrote poems to imaginable mistresses
• psychic reality
• response create existence
• "as if her were alive"- "Als obo"
• Jennifer T's blog
• iconoclasm
• Spencer's blog
• Ong
• primary orality
• people never experienced literacy or thought of literature 
• secondary orality
• predominately world of images
• visual literacy
• Shelby's blog
• words go out of existence
• ephemeral 
• Ong 71
• immortality
• orality vs literacy
• Figure of 10 stairs
• Elliot
• Wisdom of the Mythtellers
• death= death of library in oral tradition
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