Class Notes for sam

NOTES FOR SAM

“Turning” by Lynda Sexson produced by the BBC - available throughout England
Mythology as bedrock: the origin of all stories:
3 old women - 3 furies, 3 fates, frau Bauman, Schmidt, Schwartz

Baxter Tues April 6th. Wear all black and a mask if you so desire. 6pm-9pm.
10 people from Emergent Lit will be there
6 from Capstone
Sounds like Emergent Lit class will go first, capstone class last.

Wednesday - prep for Friday test.
Bring a question.

By Monday April 12th, post a paragraph on your blog about your paper topic/thesis.

The Following Story: culminating text for the class.
Focus on p. 39, 48-9, 53 (transformation), 55 (holy life), 64 (memory), 89 (Herman as Socrates), 98 (the world is a never-ending cross-reference), 106 (importance of stories),
• First part - goes to sleep in Amsterdam and wakes up in Lisbon
• Second part - on a boat into the afterlife; child, pilot, priest, journalist
the journey from one state of being into another - being into death-
Time is warped - the book is 2 secs long “What sort of time can this be in which time stands still?”

Santiago de Compostela - pilgrimage - we are all leaving/we are all arriving
“The only constant we know is that things change.”

Weighing in on The Following Story:
-Sarah Knox: Mirrors: (right out of Borghes) p. 36 Nooteboom
-Douglas Fejes: p. 50 question of tenses . . . “Tell me exactly what you think we are then . . . endlessly altering circumstances which we consider as I.”
-Jennifer is reminded of Samuel Beckett
-James the rat - 20 min. lifetime: he’s not really dying because he’s been dead the whole time. (Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge - the story happens in his moment of death/hanging)
-Lisa Hiller - the difference between silence and storytelling - via dreams, via consciousness, outward storytelling/ verbal. (p136)

Events only become experiences when we reflect/write/read about them. - Henry James

Death of Socrates: p89—condemned for corrupting morals of students in Athens—what would I gain by clinging to life like an unwilling child?—One’s life is complete at every moment therefore hemlock taken now is no different than if taken later—
p115: not my soul, but my body . . .