Tuesday 31st October

Convaluted
Luke and the Bear "Best book this semester"
3 things must be left behind
Rifle, Compass, Watch (metal)

a change of style is a change of subject- Wallace Stevens

These are not instructions
incantations, find words to recreate the experience

Listen to books on tape/ipod

Words have power

Imagination = integration
hinduism
tat tvam asi "thou art that"-integratin
neti neti- "not this not that"- deconstructive/ disciminate

Homework Read Lolita don't read notes, read Lolita again with the notes

Kitchen sink person- putting in- James Joyce
Samuel Beckett- took everything out, trying to say as little as possible

trust the tale and not the teller

The greates danger could be your own stupidity- fortune cookie

Imaginatino has two forms
1. creative , sees things that aren't there
2 decreative, strips everything else away
even the absense of imagination is imagined
It's never the worst until you can't say it's the worst.
The American story ia a failed mythological track

Benenthe Myth is Music
Walter Pater- Music improv. traditional materials to riff on

Invisible Man P.536
triple hatted trickster

google lyrics by the police(sting) Don't stand to close to me