12/8/11
Abby
- Conchis and Fowles relationship
- All that is past possesses our present!! BEST QUOTE IN MAGUS!
- Answers are a form of death to the reader
- if book ended/ had an ending Nicholas would have died
- We are all stupid like Nicholas, looking @ Nick is looking at yourself
- Come to terms with never knowing
I love that idea of just letting things be, not needing answers but understanding knowing them means nothing anyways.
Jessica
- The monster in the maze
- Who is the monster? Nicholas... WE ARE THE MONSTER!
- weaved Calasso into understanding of Magus
Read book: The Illustrated Man- living tattoos on body, each one tells a story
Jennifer
- Myth and the word made flesh
- "we are bone collectors" finding buffalo skulls
- give grace - power of eucharist
- god did not withdraw, all is waiting
- T.S. Eliot poem The Dry Salvages
EXAM Q: Logos = Word
Wena
- Olympics - symbol of peace among nations- passing the torch
- Heracles, Pelops started games by killing a guy in a chariot
- Wrestling was started with Zeus fighting his father Kronos
- Precedent behind every action... The Olympics are because of the gods and classical mythology!
OLYMPIC GAMES ARE IN LONDON 2012
Jill
- focused on underworld
- chthonic path... to underworld and back up
- Nick goes through this death and rebirth... except doesn't really grow from experience.
- he focuses on mistrust within others, instead of seeing the mistrust in himself.
American superheros fail @ pattern Fixated & Stuck!!!!
Danielle
- Nicholas doesn't know himself
- reality could be appearance in facade
- "Know Thyself" how little we know of ourselves
Maryann?
- Mermaids found in India
- Star wars was written for mythological interpretation/ imagination
- Andre the Giant - famous wrestler connection to Princess Bride
- Handed out a mythological newspaper... Olympian Gazette
Very interesting presentations today! I can't say that I thought there were real mermaids and the corpse sure doesn't look elegant like Arial ... Disney changes things they should not... REAL LIFE ISN'T ALWAYS PRETTY!
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