Notes February 13, 201

• POA memory system
• from Foer's book
• Tristan's blog
• Nick
• Onset of literacy= onset of forgetfulness
• Calvin & Hobbes cartoon
• once the boy moves out of the imaginal space the tiger once again becomes just a stuffed animal
• put away childish things
• Breanna's blog
• 1 liners from Ong
• everyone is to add at least 1 more line to her blog
• writing restructures consciousness
• In the oral tradition most things are ephemeral
• writing is a technology
• technology is something that extends the natural person: Sexson
• as interiority increase= literacy increase
• in the oral community, a person is the center of the universe
• Presentations
• explain Kane's idea
• provide an oral presentation of literature
• storytelling 
• commentary
• educate and entertain!
• psychically real
• Phoenicians invented the alphabet
• spread to the rest of the world
• Greeks restructured consciousness
• Plato
• paradoxical
• said that literature was bad but had to write it down to be listened to
• All three texts tell the same story
•  Thedorus
• Socrates talking about an Egyptian inventing writing
• would make people have reminders and not remember