Friday, March 30, 2012

Notes 3/28/2012

  • MWE: page 128
    •  Chapter 6 memorizing poetry
  • Talked about my blog on my Museyroom
  • 1st Chapter of Kane
    • most memorable line on page 21
    • class systems
      • notion of hoarding
      • striated
        • lower class usually closer to nature
  • James Joyce
    • Finnigan's Wake
    • purse = everything in it
    • would be carnal
  • Vladimier Nebokoff
    • Russian novelist
    • memorable
    • Speak Memory
      • autobiography
      • studied butterfly genitalia
      • what's most memorable in life?
        • nature
        • ecstasy
        • hunter/gather communities
          • no filters between us and nature
          • inherited guilt over killing the gods (who were personified nature)
  • Joseph Campbell also addresses this issue of the hunter/gatherer mythologies
  • Marcel Proust
    • Remembrance of Things Past
    • In Search of Lost Time
    • ecstatic memorable moments
  • 4 Great Authors of Modern High-Brow Literature that concern themselves with memory and the Oral Tradition
    • Marcel Proust
    • James Joyce
    • Samuel Beckett
    • Vladimimer Nebokoff
  • Samuel Becket
    • addresses the issue of the purse 
    • how the world is contained within it
    • Happy Days
      • specifically Act 1
      • play

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