Class Notes 2/8 and Chuang Zu

MOVIE DAY: Today we watched a Star Trek episode where Picard is rendered unconsious by a beam and lives an entire lifetime on the expired planet of Kataan in 20 minutes.

This episode reminded me of Chuang Zu and his Butterfly Dream. I think it goes something like this, Chuang Zu dreamt he was a butterfly, but after the dream he wasn't sure if he was Chuang Zu dreaming he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming that he was a Chuang Zu. And at first in the Star Trek episode it seemed like a similar situation. Was Picard, from the Enterprise dreaming he was Kamin, or was he Kamin, from Kataan dreaming he was Picard? Even though this episode focuses heavily on the 20 minute lifetime, there is a play with another theme we have for the class, The World as Myth and Dream.

Assignments:
-Blog the notion of the 20 minute lifetime in another context.
I wrote this in an earlier blog about my experience with the 20 minute lifetime, however I will be open to the 20 minute lifetime in other contexts: 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 anda peaceful Oly curled at my feet encourages me to hit the snooze and sink intomy pillow. I usually have the longest, most vivid dreams for the 5 minutes ofsnooze time. When my alarm goes off again I frantically look at the time becauseit feels as though I have been sleeping for days and days, but it has only been 5minutes.
-Blog on passage in the Four Quartets that relates to the 20 minute lifetime. There are already several people who have blogged on this and each one seems right on.