Apologies & Class Notes!

My smartpen died in class. I forgot to charge it, my apologies.

Wednesday, Jenny Lynn will be taking blackboard notes for the Friday test. Bring questions!

Next week we will be beginning the group presentations!

By Monday blog your thesis statement for your personal paper for class, written on any theme from class or "what I know now that I didn't know before and the difference it makes."

The Following Story pages to view:
1) P. 39 Beetles and rat
2) P. 48-9 Metamorphosis
3) P. 53 Ditto
4) P. 55
5) P. 64 Memory
6) P. 89 Crito/Socrates
7) P. 106
8) P. ? Santiago de Compostela (pilgrimage from The Alchemist as well)
9) P. 98 "The World is a never ending cross reference."

Two parts of The following Story:
Part 1: Dying
Part 2: I'm on a Boat! (couldn't help myself.)

The link from class to The Following Story Blog again.

Memorize passage from The Following Story, the passage that goes; "This is, I believe, it: not the crude anguish of physical death but the incomparable pangs of the mysterious mental maneuver need to pass from one state of being to another.
Easy, you know, does it, son."

Sarah - Mirrors and memory. (Sorry I missed the page)

Douglas, p. 50 tracking tense. "We are a cluster of composite..." (Memorize) The only time that I is used is when the reader is being addressed.

Thomas - Self-loathing, Beckettesque. Nooteboom was actually influenced by Beckett.

The lifetime in a moment, as promised by Dr. Sexson that the 20 minute lifetime would actually be an instant lifetime.

Lisa - silence and storytelling or dream. P. 106 "I know now that I didn't know then"

Experiences are only events until you reflect on them.

P. 89 - Death of Socrates.

Socrates - "Ones life is complete at every moment, therefore don't wait until sunset to take the hemlock, take it now. What do you have to gain?" Similar to Henry V, the death of Fallstaff.

"I owe a cock to Aesculapius."