Notes 2/6/2012

• Remove the words "like" & "just" from your vocabulary
• Ong
• taking a stand away from forgetfullness
• Check out Rio's blog
• Forgetfulness was a sin to the Greeks
• Anamnesis
• Plate
• Memory Magician- Prospero
• Hermetic sciences
• forgetfulness=lethel- comes from the idea of the River of Leth
• Becoming childlike
• everything is more memorable because it is new and exciting
• Nick's Blog
• Picasso
• represents reality by creating stark, memorable, & vivid images
• mythological distortion
• giants, witches, dwarfs, etc...
• Puff the Magic Dragon
• http://www.poemhunter.com/song/puff-the-magic-dragon/
• Ashley's Blog
• seeing words and speaking words creates image within the mind
• Finnigan's Wake
• suggests it is about things the dreamers sees right before he sleeps
• Revisioning Psychology
• James Hillman
• Ong
• "Memory is enormous...creates people with wings...thrill of discovery and awe" St. Augustine
• end of Chapter 2