Sunday, November 23, 2008

Class Notes 11/19

*Pullman calls himself a "stark realist"

*Pg. 281 - Idea of North
- idea as the reality of the thing instead of a geographical understanding
- the imagining of North
- Wallace Stevens The Snowman


*Music of the Spheres
- movements of the celestial bodies create a kind of music
- can be heard, but not until your ears are trained to hear it
- what we think of as inanimate, may be sentient - the dust knows

*Animals
- to transcend your human/animal connection is denying your soul
- Animals, daemons, are inseparable from their humans
- to lose your animal is to lose your anime = soul

*Aliethiometer
- symbols mapped out on Ryan's blog
- you bring you own assumptions to the divining instrument
- Taylor's Mongolia divining bones
- devices as symbols of the way the imagination works
- imagination is a device for connection

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