24 November 2008 Class Notes

• Can 12-year olds feel the same way about love as adults? Is it a true love story?
• Thought: The god that is killed off in this book is an imposter god, its all the negative religious connotations that are killed off...
• Agnostic marginalized
• Genisis 3, fall into original sin, or was it needed to move on with life, was it important so that people could be smart?
• scholarship, learning
• "Maps & Legends: Reading on the Borderlands" --> check out this book
• Talked about Sutter's blog
• Experience, knowledge, remembrance, Dust - is it inert or was it active with power
• "How can you know anything, to know something, you must know what your looking for and who knows what we are looking for...therefore...you don't know what your looking for until you find it..."
• It's true because its more interesting, truth is beauty and its beautiful because its true
• Joseph Campbell
• Children's literature is where the good stuff is at?
• Where are the men? Most of the fairytales we have read are all about the women...
• Quote from Subtle Knife "those who want us to know more and those who want us to submit"
• Grand Inquisitor, atheist brother, how people are kept submissive
• The rhythm/music of line
• MS doesn't believe in giving children only age appropriate material...give them Alice and Shakespeare when they are young!
• pg 864, harpies feeding on the stories of people, the dead coming out, the truth can only come to us through stories
• "everything that rise must converge"
• Dame Hannah, one of the great English scholars
• Intuition, intuitive, reading the althiometer
• pg 911, you have to put away all your magic instruments and look at the world where you are now
• Dumbo learing to fly without the feather
• Do it without the magic, "Four Quartets" TS Elliott
• Blake, eternity is in love with the productions of time
• The only paradise you'll ever know is what's going on now and here...