Notes February 29, 2012

• Word of the day: ARCHITECTURE
• Presentations
• Myths of Storytelling
• Kane
• leaned towards the superiority of oral tradition vs the literary tradition
• myths = stories that the Earth tells that we overhear
• orality existed before literature
• context of speculation and irony
• have to write about orality for anyone to know about the evils of literacy
• Expectations
• each chapter is prefaced with a literary work
• interiorize the literary aspect
• need to memorize good portion of it
• immerse people in the story
• Discussion/Presentation
• What is Kane trying to say in the chapter?? Explain
• Show the reflective/conceptual ideas within the chapter
• show the romantic appreciation of the oral tradition
• Museyroom
• make architectually situated
• Base model on memory theater
• if multiple theater combine into one!
• know Loci
• Example: centerfold of Yates
• Gordanno Bruno would also be an example as he created the most complex museyroom in history
• The Art of Memory
• page 123
• Yates was WRONG on her discussion of Hypneratomachia Poliphili
• Hypneratomachia = Sleep/Dream Love Fight/Strife
• Wikipedia Link for the story
• Memory gone crazy
• Consolation of Philosophy
• book discussed in relation to Hypnerotomachi Poliphili
• John Crowley
• 3 book series
• 1st book: Agept about Bruno
• 2nd book: Love & Sleep about Hypnerotomachi Poliphili
• Hypnerotomachi Poliphili
• represents the Greek god Priapus 
• God of male genitalia
• secularized story of love, sexuality, erotics of architecture
• 1 of the most unreadable books in literature
• written in 1499 but not translated until 1999
• translated by Joscelyn Godwin
• Dream within a Dream
• mystery of western culture
• woodcuts
• inscriptions which no one knows what they mean
• probably the key to some memory mystery
• The Da Vinci Code
• Rule of Four
• 2004 
• obsessed with hypno