Notes

Seperation, initiation, return - not specific enough for paper

completely planned/ seemingly unplanned - don't read paper word for word

practice in front of mirro

chose specific important parts of book

Dont use words LIKE & STUFF

25 to 30 blogs by the end

15-18 Startlingly awesome blogs

quality of blog/ engaged blog!

Stranger that Fiction

An IRS auditor suddenly finds himself the subject of narration only he can hear: narration that begins to affect his entire life, from his work, to his love-interest, to his death.

How did it all begin? Calasso god abducted bull

curse or gift of the alphabet- Cadmus

MOST IMPORTANT LINE IN MAGUS pg 311 "All that is past possesses our present."

masque --> music dancing stage professional actors hired

Nick- all staged deconstructing Urfe's mind.

Conchis looks like Pablo Picasso.

Semian monkey?

Precedent behind every action-same as quote from pg 311 Magus.

Carry pressure of past with you. lives are quotidian small talk, world is present.

Hi(s)tory

-guys play with tonka trucks

mythical baggage- Urfe was unaware of

Collective Unconscious

Carl Jung.  It is  a part of the unconscious mind

  the structure of the psyche autonomously organizes experience. "the collective unconscious collects and organizes those personal experiences in a similar way with each member of a particular species."(WIKI)

 I have trap door to birth? also everyone else's baggage

its all been planned, choreographed

every man must make a trip to see Persephone in the underworld.

Creator, Preserver, & Destroyer

"Every answer is a kind of death" Magus, Lily De' Seitas says to Nicholas on pg 626

Impersonal, not about you... Visit with Lily and Roses mother painful discovery- it's not about us. Don't stop being you just start seeing it's not about everybody else.

"Betrayal is a function of deconstruction!"

I love it !!

Ignorance is stupidity, to hide behind veil

Black widow- gets male into web, uses him for something (impregnates), eat him ...

Mae West- devouring female... no soul

gives him good time, devours him.... JULIE is a Black Widow

Eliade- Taoism

--> dreamed he was a butterfly, enjoying himself he woke as a man and didn't know if he was dreaming of being a butterfly or butterfly dreaming of being a man.