Class Notes 3/5

Notes:

Gluten Issues? talk to Rio

The Tempest...really a storm? still a point of uncertainty by some

Mnemosyne

clowns to murder Prospero, Calaban says to get the books, he knows how important they are

represent appearance of a storm...
but people are forever fooling us....(I can never tell the natural hair color of some of my friends)
magician fools us...it's all a trick, an illusion...
but we think the world is real...

what is the role of the father in comedy? he is the obstacle between the boy and the girl
boy and girl make googoo eyes at eachother, love at first site
Prospero knows his role, has to make himself the obstacle
"as my soul prompts it"
stage manager is Ariel, doing the special effects, not reall, an illusion
Prospero managing everything....
Prospero is tired of the same thing as was Bill in Ground Hogs Day.......
and the people who work in Disneyland...every aspect of the city is a simulation of an imagined place...
(I remember Sutter explaining postmoderism to me using Disneyland as an example. To get to Disneyland you have to park and then walk through the parking lot, then you enter into Disney Land which is a simulation of the real world, with different countries and attractions and food etc. Disneyland is presented as this real world, and the parking lot isn't real, but the parking lot is where reality is, and Disneyland is where reality is simulated. Something like that."

Boatswain!

Backett wants us to think about 'I' and think about the sutobiography, we aren't the same people we were and when writing our autobiography it cannot be accurate because we've changed, it is a fiction, it is a lie.

"Miranda's Attendents": memory, medievalism, cyberspace and soul, article by Dr. Sexson
life as dream or illusion
Miranda remembers having 4 or 5 attendents...Prospero asks, what else do you see, or rather he says, "What see'st that else/In the dark backward and abysm of time?" 1.2
(we are to memorize this sentence and use it on someone....just for fun)
Prospero is taking Mirana back through her memory....
little theatrical performance of someone sitting in a dark room with images projected on the wall
Prospero situates Miranda in a memory drama, recollections are factual and mythic
understanding extended by Frances Yates, The Art of Memory.

temenos: In religious discourse in English, Temenos has also come to refer to a territory, plane, receptacle or field of deity or divinity. Temenos is a piece of land cut off and assigned as an official domain, especially to kings and chiefs, or a piece of land marked off from common uses and dedicated to a god, a sanctuary, holy grove or holy precinct.

"the more you remember...the more you remember." - Dr. Sexson

Kyle started reciting the top 50 guitarists from Rolling Stone

See Christina's blog and her Allegory of the Cave drawing, quite good.....which led Dr. Sexson to bring up Don Quixote.......

(But what I thought of was the movie called The Truman Show with Jim Carry. The man grows up on a TV show in a dome where everything is simulated for him! His marriage, his job, the sun, the weather, everything! Until he starts to see the inner mechanisms that run the simulation. One time in the elevator he sees people he isn't supposed to, a light falls from the sky, he notices simulated habits and movements of people....and sails to the outer edge of the simulated ocean to the simulated sky, where there is a door and he steps out into the real sun for the very first time.)

This fits the theme, life as dream or illusion, The Truman Show, we accept the reality with which we are presented:



Passage to India, read it