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”
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