October 31st: Flourescent lights, asps, knots intrinsicate, &c.

"You ain't boogied 'til you've boogied with the dead."

FRONT MATTER:

- Next Tuesday (November the 5th): Displaced myths! Have them at the ready.

- Remember to remind Mr Sexson to tell more death stories in lecture.


IMPORTANT TERMS/INTERESTING TIDBITS

"As virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls to go,
Whilst some of their sad friends do say,
"The breath goes now," and some say, "No,"

So let us melt, and make no noise,
No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move;
'Twere profanation of our joys
To tell the laity our love."
- from 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning' by John Donne



"The most important thing is it can happen just like that. Shakespeare writes, 'The readiness is all.' Just like that, and you're gone."

Consider checking out the book 'Finnegan's Wake' by James Joyce.
"...the language becomes so mythological it becomes almost dreamlike... you're not supposed to understand it. You're supposed to dance with it."

"...untie this knot intrinsicate." - Cleopatra.

"Alas! I knew him Horatio!" - Shakespeare

“Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” - Shakespeare


ET CETERA

"Once you're gone, you're gone. You exist only in people's memories."

 "We are here on the earth for one purpose, and that purpose is to sing."

"Isn't that a wonderful word to say? Asps. ASPS. Asps. ... Asps."

"Lucretius would say that death is not something to be fearful of. Obliviousness is not something to be fearful of because... you're oblivious. Death is not something we experience."

"All of life is enriched by your reflection reflection on death."

"(Lucretius) would say that we do not die, we are merely reassembled... Like into the horrible lights in this room, which are humming.
*looks up at flourescent lights for a time*
That used to be an old friend of mine."