Notable class 21 February

Poets channel myths
Tabula Rasa - blank slate of English empiricists vs. the platonic view of Coleridge's babies "trailing clouds of glory"
interpret = guide to remembering, dreams are dis-membered reality

---- It seems that there is a significant connection between memory and sparagmos and communion. Isn't the eucharist performed "In remembrance of Me"? The tearing apart and consumning of The Body is unto itself an act of memory, not just a mimesis, but a physical act in the present that blurs the line distinguishing the past from the now. ------

Tragedy presentation by the Autumn group

_____ Is mimesis any less "real" than the original that it purports to copy? _____

If we are what we eat, does the eucharist make us God? This was the argument that the serpent put forth in the Garden of Eden - You will be like God. Is the eating of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil a foreshadowing or type of the eucharist but in the negative aspect that it is a union with death, a direct violation of the command to not eat. Christ reverses this with his Last Supper injunction.

Homeopathy - like produces like

Julie: Remembering & Forgetting
Mnemosyne (Goddess of memory and inventor of words) & Lethe - forgetting allows us to remember and dreaming lets us forget
The day world needs to be forgotten and awakens another level of remembering.

Dromenon = Drama o originates in pleurosis/kenosis of seasonal rituals

Irony group:
purgation: cleansing of old and introduction of new
Humiliation of the king - some form of tyranny is brought ot society to foil society (Emperor's New Clothes)
Initiates temporary chaos
Satire is militant irony