Class Notes 10/29

* "Life is a handful of moments. Most of us spend the moments we have left indulging in the arts and literature." - Walter Pater The Renaissance

*Papers should be somewhere between 3-100 pages.
*Look at Hannah's images of Alice

* "In the end, it does not come down to morals, but to music." -MS

* "It takes a great deal of history to write a little bit of literature." - Henry James
- Sunderland is at the intersection of history and mythology - the real and the imaginary

*Endings of Tartar
- Sleeping Beauty = everything becomes animated, en-souled (anime = soul)
- Snow White = red hot iron shoes, dancing to death
- Frog Prince = hoops burst from around Faithful Hendrick's chest
- Rapunzel = the healing power of tears
- Rumpelstiltskin = there is magic in a name
(the realm of childhood is a realm of magical words - words have power)
- Jack and the Beanstalk = happily ever after....