Monday, November 10, 2008

Class Notes 11/3

*Read Chris Clark's Blog - Shelley Poetry
- rhapsodic lines about poetry and Bach's suite playing in the background

*Sunderland
- Pg. 28-29
- Wonderland is a world where everyone is mad - Cheshire Cat
- Pg. 206 - "do historical events become myth only if they contain a moral lesson?"
- Vladimir Nabokob is influenced, like Carroll, by the chess game - it appears in every one of his novels
- James Joyce - APL archetype of the female character
- a world of coincidence or Jungian synchronicity
- Pg. 134 - Chuang Tzu and the Butterfly
- The Idiot, Doestoevsky
--"at the very last conscious moment before the fit began, he had time to say to himself clearly and consciously, "Yes, for this moment one might give one's whole life!"

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