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
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