Class Notes 1/20 & My 20 Minute Lifetime

Class Notes from Jan. 20th

Changing into a larger classroom is P2C2E, so we are staying in the small classroom where we are squished together like sardines.

Blogs to do, but not necessarily due:
-blog in the style of the water genie about our own life, the more words the better, see pg. 59
-blog about what you see when you wake up
-blog about your 20 minute lifetime experience

The only 20 minute lifetime experience I can think of having is in the morning.
When the alarm rings I think about getting up, but the warm body next to me and
a peaceful Oly curled at my feet encourages me to hit the snooze and sink into
my pillow. I usually have the longest, most vivid dreams for the 5 minutes of
snooze time. When my alarm goes off again I frantically look at the time because
it feels as though I have been sleeping for days and days, but it has only been 5
minutes.

-blog on how 'Haroun' links with the themes of the class
-blog a discovery in Finnegans Wake on the one page you choose and memorize about 29-32 words
-and keep reading blogs!


In class Dr. Sexson covered briefly the themes of class:
1. Myth of Eternal Return - everything appears in cycles, ability to return to the mythical age, universe is recurring, we've done it before, we've just forgotten it. How many times have we taken this class?

got to wake up and smell whatever it is that you smell

Ballad of Tim Finnegan's Wake, give this one a chance, they mention Joyce in the intro:


"Lots of fun at Finnegans Wake"
Odyssey is to Ulysses as Tim Finnegans Wake is to Finnegans Wake.

VICO - 18th century Italian philosopher of Eternal Return
Gods
hero
men
chaos - dude language, dude, like, bitch

2. 20 minute lifetime
star trek
and doesn't Alice wake up from Wonderland having only napped for a little while or no?
3. Life as fiction and language
we are made of other peoples words
4. World as Myth & Dream
Vishnu dreaming universes out of the cosmic ocean
5. Dolce Domum
home sweet home
find that the treasure is already home where you started, but you have to leave to come back and find it. Dorthy had to leave and go to Oz before finding that everything she needs is in her own backyard.
in order to get to where you are, go by ignorance - via negativa -

Talked about Rushdie - highbrow talent, very impressed with Beckett and definitely read Nabokov.....Zembla

Haroun pg 107
Finnegans Wake top of pg 112 - woods...words
Haroun pg 125 Shadow Warrior dance - silence has its own beauty, creatures of darkness as lovely as children of light, reference to Beckett
Beckett keeps talking about not talking

We are all invited to Dr. Sexson's Funferal.....and drink the water of life.....whiskey.