The Test

I think that the test went well- hopefully. There were only like three questions I was unsure and I am kind of angry that I missed up on Ong's 9 Things. I did not remember one of the things. I am hoping for a good grade and I think I will get it!

Notes for February 13, 2009

Kevin on Yates: imagination is the one-hour photo booth of memory. Discussed soul, imagination, memory
can often remember imaginative acts in childhood better than what happened in real life
memory is the access to the divine world
check out the wikipedia outline of “The Art of Memory”
3 “Remember Me” speeches:
Hamlet
Jesus
Krishna

Notes for February 11, 2009

Ong's 9 Things:
Additive
Aggregative
redundant
conservative
close to the human life word, information to life situations
Agonistic
empathetic and participatory
homeostatis
situational rather than abstract
Listen to the children and schoolyard flyting

Notes for February 6, 2009

no clichés: just originality
epithets for everyone! Shaman Sexson, Kate of the Beautiful Eyes, Keen Kenning Ben, others
allegory of the cave (Zach): high school teacher made performance by turning off the lights
“Metaphors of Memory”
create epithets for everyone in your group
Not I think- I see
you close your eyes so you can see.

Notes for February 4, 2009

Look at the pictures in the Yates book
to hear things incorrectly makes events and/or detaiks more interesting
emotion is what helps trigger more vivid memories as well as imagination

My list of 50 Discrete Items/People

My list of 50 Discrete Items/People who live around me:
Sarah
Tiffany
Elizabeth
Jessi
Amanda
Jenny Sue
Lindsey
Rachael
Alex
Li Li
Bre
Megan
Rachel
Serena
Marly
Safia
Elizabeth
Katelynn
Anelya
Neilya
Shannon
Kelsey
Lisa
Ceran
Megan
Camille
Amber
Brooke
Angela
Jyoti
Lynlea
Shalaine
Eve
Mary
Li
Jenifer
Suhan
Kate
Heather
Laura
Clark
Katie
Sam
Sarah
Chuck
Julie
Whitney
Patrick
Jess
Sally

Notes for February 2, 2009

Groundhog Day!- each day is special and unique. Each day is to be lived.
I am reminded of “Stranger than Fiction” or “The Truman Show” because of the repetition of life. Each day at the beginning of both movies are redundant and not truly living. Only when the characters choose to live outside of the box (notice the cliché), do they truly live and flourish in their individuality.
Rituals and “the myth of the eternal return” endless repetition
recitation of lines/song lyrics/town as a memory theater
watch Groundhog Day: pay attention
Bloonsday: June 16, 1902
Ulysses out; the day that James Joyce met his future wife or exchanged intimacies
Muses and the classroom's memory theater:
Thermostat, Erato (heat), erotic poetry
chalkboard, Clio (old technology), history
screen, Urania (above us, look up at it), astronomy
“Quiet” desk, Thalia (class clown), comedy
overhead projector, Polyhymnia (hymns overhead in church), “many hymns”, sacred songs
old desk, Terpsichore (tiny dancer), dance
bulletin board, Calliope, epic poetry
snowman, Euturpe (“Let It Snow” or “Frosty the Snowman”), song
weird F, Melpomeme (swastika or Mel Gibson eating a pomegranate), tragedy

Notes for January 30, 2009

Think about other people's blogs
Do not clutter your blog however
HOUSEKEEPING!
Come up with some examples of flyting: “The Christmas Story” which is full of insults and a different type of mob mentality. Shakespeare...
Poetry is everything including song lyrics, rap and stand-up comedy
Why not just memorize lines or objects? Why make it a memory system/palace/theater?
Senses trigger memories
NOTHING is ever lost
Do we have any memories before learning to talk? I think we do, just they are harder to remember and they are harder to fully explain when the memory is recalled

Notes for January 28, 2009

If theaters are memory palaces, is the Globe Theater full of memories?
Know for the test on February 20:
Danielle's cooler
John Nay's birthday
Sutter's muse of tragedy: Melpomene is Mel Gibson eating a pomegranate
when Dr. Sexson has to give blood next at the Red Cross. It will be March 17 and he will give green blood. The last time was Inauguration Day.
The 100 Discrete Items has been moved to 50 Discrete Items- not the alphabet or numbers
Yates: cup-poison, Tablets-what happened, Testicles of a ram- testimony of witnesses.
Testify/test: referring to the body and male's anatomy; had to swear on male genitalia
memory theater within the extremely ordinary classroom:
thermostat
blackboard
screen
quiet desk
overhead projector
old desk
bulletin board
snowman
weird F
Kane: page 32- myth is poor remembrance.
Page 41: oak-ash
Sexson: IT IS ALL POETRY!
Yates: Page 4- heightened sight

Notes for January 25, 2009

Do not ask instructors “what is it that you want?”
artificial art
technique for memorizing the muses: 2 C.E.T.M.U.P: Calliope, Clio, Euturpe, Erato, Thalia, Terpsichore, Melpomene,Urania, Polyhymnia
You could also use Sutter's or Tai's methods of going through a house or synagogue.
The liberal arts are: Grammar, Geometry, rhetoric, arithmetic, music, astronomy, dialect- a way of memorizing the liberal arts would be GGRAMAD. The stuttering grama and d

Notes for January 23, 2009

Alaskan cabin- reconstructed from Ben's memory and made by Legos.
Everyday should be remembered as if something happened. Hopefully it is not because of a disaster but something should be remembered for each day.
Shannon's blog on first memory: stranded in the backyard when two years old. She was crying when her father comes out with video camera, saying how cute she is.
My first memory is standing out in the front yard. It was a nice to hot day and my family was outside. Somehow I got a hold of the hose and was spraying my brother and sister. I was about two years old. I remember laughing hysterically. Looking through my mother's photo album, there is a picture of the incident. Ryan and Kim (my siblings) are bent over to make sure the water hits them and I have a big goofy grin on my face while I barely hold onto the hose.

Notes for January 21, 2009

go to Chris, Sutter, or Janna's blogs if you miss a class.
How do you go about thinking memorable thoughts? How do you remember?
You could start by eliminating cliches from your vocabulary.
Epic- definitely not cliché, and Dr. Sexson approves!
How do I know what I think until I see what I say?
To write is to make life and existence easier
Technology is not the villain; technology is inevitable.
Technology may not be the villain and technology is inevitable but it sure is annoying when it does not work. At the beginning of the semester, my computer contracted a virus of some sort. I was without my computer for about a week, and I felt lost. You do not realize how much you use something until it is gone.
Epistle generation: generation of writing letters
Society criticizes older technology but it has internalized and becomes second nature.
Dr. Sexson talked about the days of listening to a ventriloquist on the radio. TV came along, people complained that it would lead to a lack of imagination.
Referring to pictures instead of print.
What makes things memorable? If it is tragic, funny, historically or personally important, there is a carnal aspect, or not pleasant/grotesque.
Example of November 22, 1963 for Dr. Sexson, September 11, 2001 for us. Where were you?
I remember that it was early in the morning. My mother always dropped me off for school and we usually got ready for the day at the same time. She called me into her bedroom to watch the TV. As we watched together, we saw the towers fall after the planes hit. We saw people screaming and crying. We saw many emergencies vehicles. During the day at school, most of my classes involved watching TV and seeing the horrific events as they happened.
Do not use the words history or historic. Instead substitute mythology, mythological, or mythic

Notes from January 16, 2009

Why is memory a focus in a class such as this?
Writing is a TECHNOLOGY of memory
Listen to other people and their conversations-oral traditions and such
Danielle's conversation with her roommate about the water cooler:
“Have you emptied the cooler by the window yet?”
“No, because there is nothing really important in it.”
What do I know about that I did not know yesterday?
Page 7 in Ong: “Of the some 3000 + languages spoken that exist today (printed in 1982), only some 78 have a literature.”
Old people's terrible habits:
Repeating: If anyone has watched “The Mysterious Case of Benjamin Button,” think about the guy who was struck by lightning seven times...
Forgetting
Dying
Orality versus literacy debate!
Dr. Sexson likes the intimacy of literature as he fondles our textbooks- almost the equivalent of Playboy but not the same
Orality to written language, written to print, print to electronic and visual
Allusions to the movies “Back to the Future” and “The Wizard of Oz”

To know for the test on Friday

from Kane:
moon bone (repetition0
property?
Agriculture
practical
white berries
caribou and frogs
definition of myth

from Ong:
primary orality
secondary orality
chirographic
typographic
page 72: vision versus sound
Plato's argument (page 79)/ also in Yates page 38

from Yates:
Simonedes
rhetoric to ethics to cosmos
St. Augustan (page 47)

Class Questions:
liberal arts (Stuttering Grama-GGRAMAD)
definition of neoplatonism (mysticism)
significance of February 20
what is anamnesis?
What happened in 1600?
definition of parataxis
muses and Ong's 9 things
bicameralism (Ong)
definition of esoteric
imagination is the one hour photo of what
Who is Shahir Azad?
The difference between the natural and artificial memory
collective versus personal unconsciousness
Phaedrus: writing happens outside of the mind
Instructor giving blood when?
What were Kevin's 3 main topics? Memory, imagination, and soul
epithets associated with the princess, the oak, and the soldier: beautiful princess, sturdy oak, brave soldier
Ben and Kate's epithets