Tuesday 24th Oct.

The Blues
Bessie Smith: A good man is hard to find
Louis Armstrong: What did I do to be so Black and Blue

Dead Man
1. Stretch
2. Wisdom= wisdom of death

Bill Blake compared to Daisy Miller
-naive, innocent, underline wisdom


Dead Man as a pyramid
account (?)
capitalism
road movie
journey
quest
abduction -Bill Blake abducted by William Blake

Learns "Poetry is a Destructive Force" It can kill a man.

W.S.
Waving Adieu, Adieu, Adieu
To Be ones singualr self
Of Modern Poetry

Is Dead Man full of things because it's detailed or simple?

The story of Rachel and Jacob-playing out his namesake

Parallel
The Bear
Primal Rythms
Lion-the dog trained, by Boone, to get the bear

White race destroyes Bear and Nature
The only truth that matters is the truth of the heart

Oct. 2nd 1856 Ike McKasin Freed

Invisible Man
pgs. 264-266
Old people getting evicted
Marcus Garvey real person, jamacian, black nationalist

6th Aug. 1856 Freed Primus Proud

Picaresque, spanish
Rogues, rascals, episodics
series of set pieces that are their way (?)
Battle Royal


Horatio Algers - work hard and you will successed=wealth
The Erie Train Boy

Inivisible- Not an alger style
keeps having injustic, sinical, inhibernation like the bear

"Who are you"
Rinhart, the trickster, doppleganer, brer rabbit
p. 474

Invisible is becoming Rinehart
Bill Blake is becoming William Blake

p. 490 at the top

Cultural Pluralism- end of novel
Diversity- one and many, out of many one

p. 238 verbal combat: flyting
can't be angery, The Dirty Dozen
for class on thursday reproduce one in your life.