"Great things will come of the pursuit, though we may not enjoy them. Brighter stars will rise on some voyager of the future- some great Ulysses of the realms of thought- than shine on us. The dreams of magic may one day be the waking realities of science."
Lit 285 Review
12/9/2010
*Religions of the book-Muslim, Christianity, Buddhism
*Mythology helps to dictate how we interact in the world. I form what we think and why we think it.
*group 1 Double myth game The only permanent thing? Change
*group 2- What is a modern version of Pan and Apollo? Tenacious D
*Archetype is the old stuff.
*Signature is your own insight
*What false idol brought snow-Pygmalion to life? John Madden
*Group 4- At the beginning there was the flood and at the end there was the flood.
*Group 5-How did John get away from the Cyclops? He said his name was No Man
*See film called “Dead Man”
*Group 6- What can be said about all ends? They are also beginnings
*In my end is my beginning.
* What are the odds one and three
*most memorial presentation- What two parts did Corrine say were about the same? The heart and the groin
*Tristan-Buddy visited Africa, they did not know the land. Oral and written knowledge were very different. They didn’t have written knowledge, they had oral traditions. Animal like knowledge and myth knowledge
*In Jon Orsi’s final compare the writing process of? Loss of virginity
*James Joyce compares himself to what mythological personage? God
*Read the afterword in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
*the last few chapters of Eliade. P 155 Focus: allegory, Xenophanes. Think about when reading M&R that we have returned to the beginning of class.
*M&R read p 199. Fairy tales, appendix
*Campbell in Hero of a thousand faces-the happy ending is a fairy tale. Message of myth(happily ever after)
*M&R p 172 Oral traditions, popular theology
*Myth does not deconstruct you faith, it reconstructs religion.
*p 172 Popular theology
*p 177 Children’s mythology- people that have blinded themselves to faith
*Finagins way
*Watch “into Gray silence”
*Am I a be-er or becomer
*Stripping yourself away to zero
*Write a summary of the class
*you are more than you think you are and you know more than you think you do.
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