Class Notes: 11/10/09
-Test! Next Tuesday! Review Thursday, bring two questions, fill in the blank, multiple choice, short answer, to contribute to review.
-Be thinking about your term paper, which option you’re going to write about: the Slave; What you didn’t know before that you know now, and what DIFFERENCE it makes; or something else but you need to check with Dr. Sexson first.
-Separation, Initiation, Return: archetypal steps in journey narratives, usually involves suffering, tragedy, and comedy.
-Slave page numbers, 238, 259-262, and 278-289.
-SCRUBS: The Gospel of John, Feed my Sheep, Patients, feed them, bathe them, cut them up and sew them back together.
-The Gospel of John: Jesus and Peter Section, the stooge, a little slow on the upkeep, able to “get it.” -Zorra Neil Hersten
-The book of Revelation: Wild, crazy, extraordinary images; book of the apocalypse, notions of a messiah, a big war between good and evil, ushered in with extreme visibility.
-Author was definitely on hallucinogens. A Vision of Christ 1.9;
-Revelation 3.15 be hot or cold but not luke-warm.
Revelation 6 –The Seven Seals
-Remembrance: think vivid, The last time Dr. Sexson gave blood was St. Patrick’s Day, he gave green blood.
-Movie “The Seventh Seal, last scene of the movie, the dance of death, great tabloids of cinematic history. Challenging, in Swedish, black and white, with subtitles but get it.
SONGS:
-Blind Willy Mctell, Son House -John The Revelator: traditional call and response song; good stuff.
-Nina Simone: Sinner Man, great song we’re all familiar with from other songs, artists, using clips of her song. Nina learned it from her mother who sang it at revival meetings.
-Revelation 13: The Mark of The Beast; The Number of the Beast 666; Ronald Wilson Reagan.
-Ch.16.12, angel pours bowl in river Euphrates, naked and ashamed.
-16.16: Armageddon, end of day’s battle
-The end of the book of revelation, the U shaped curve
-Ch.21 – very powerful, biblical passages; Write!
-Ch. 22- face to face; I am Alpha and Omega; Omega Men; I am Legend – or so Will Smith thinks he is.
-Thomas Jefferson thought the author of Revelation was a lunatic!
BOOKS:
-The Day of The locust, By Nathaniel West; Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.
Frye and Check Tai Blog
-The only chapter of Fry we’ll need to know for the test is chapter 5; the seven stages of the bible.
-Seventh Phase: Apocalypse
-The Bible is consistent with its imagery, water in the beginning and the end.
-Page 135-6- apocalypse, metaphorically sense of uncovering. Greek, Alethea, an unforgetting
-Anamnesis; remembrance, open the lid and everything we’ve forgotten will pour out, we’ll remember.
-See the world through the right spectacles, think metaphor, and see it as it really is.
-Mark 13, also a great passage of apocalyptic material.
