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Course Assignments / WEEK FOUR / Re: Occupation, dublin and FW
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on: September 11, 2005, 11:42:45 AM
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paragraph 1
riverrun > river Anna Liffey flows thru Dublin
pasr Eve nd Adam's > Liffey passes church of Adam & Eve at Merchant's Quay
Howth Castle > built 1170 by Norman invader sir Trisram Armory de St Lawrence
paragraph 2
Sir Tristram ...Armorica...laurens > builder of Howth Castle
isthhmus > hill of Howth at north of istmus of Sutton
mishe mishe...tauf tauf > stuttering > Parnell stuttered
peatrick > St Paricl's Cathedral
kiscad >cadet [younger rival]
butended...isaac > Isaac Butt replaced by Parnell as leader of Home Rule party
malt...Jhem of Shen > Jameson's whiskey
paragraph 3
Finnegan > irish ballad/Finnnegan pronounced dead but rises again
> Finn again
knock out in park > Castle Knock east of Phoenix park
livvy > Anna liffey
paragraph 4
wils gen wants > Vico & Marx on class war
[wars/battle/weapons thickly clustered in this paragraph]
cashels aired and ventilated > Cashel cathedral burned by Silken Thomas
paragraph 7
butt...under ...bidge > Butt Bridge, last bridge Liffey flows under
before entering Dublin Bay |
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Course Assignments / WEEK FOUR / Re: Gaylick renessisterdance
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on: September 09, 2005, 04:43:30 PM
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Also sprach acryllic
'in the bogiing wuz the woid'
JJ has, somewhere in part III, "Inn the buggining is the woid,
in the muddle is the soundance, then you're in the
unbewised again." |
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Course Assignments / WEEK FOUR / the shining seven
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on: September 09, 2005, 04:34:23 PM
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--The shining seven W.B. calls them.
As you've looked at the first 7 paragraphs thru four different grids,
do you think any grid seems more true or more relevant
than any or all of the others?
Do you see any application of this exercize to daily life or science? |
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Course Assignments / WEEK FOUR / Re: FW: Hostory and Resistance
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on: September 08, 2005, 04:52:15 PM
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A lot of Joyce's friends got killed in the Easter Rising of 1916
Statues of some of them adorn Stephen's Green.
Easter chosen for the Rising by Padaic Pearse
for poetic/mythic resonance.
"phall as you will, rise you must" |
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Course Assignments / WEEK FOUR / Re: The name Finnegan/Finn/Nora
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on: September 08, 2005, 04:33:26 PM
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Finnegan, Nora and Shaun the Post all appear as
charcters in Arrah na Pogue ['nora of the kiss']
by Dion Boucicolt, a 19th Century play about the
18th Century United Irishmen uprising
Dion > dionysus > death & resurrection > Finnegan in the ballad
nor avoice, page 3 > Nora's voice 
Hohohoho, Mister Finn, you're going to be Mister Finnagaon, para 6  |
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Course Assignments / WEEK FOUR / Re: Benjamin Tucker
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on: September 07, 2005, 03:23:24 PM
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Damme, i can't access that so-called webpage either 
JJ started as a Panellite and moved to Tuckeirite/Tolstoy
anarchism, but also supported early Sinn Fein [c 1920]
then uttered NO political opinons for the rest of his life...
er um except for one sarcastic putdown of Hitler |
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Course Assignments / WEEK FOUR / swftly & sternly
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on: September 07, 2005, 03:12:38 PM
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paragraph 1
Howth Castle > Swift a frequent visitor; Some claim an affair between him
and Lady St Lawrence > Lawrence Sterne
paragraph 2
Sir Tristram > Tristram Shandy by Lawrence Sterne
vanesoon > Esther van Homerrigh, another possible Swift amour, called
Vanessai in his poems
kidscad > Cadenus, one of Swift's pen names
issac > Isaac Beckersniff, another of Swift's pen names
vanessy > vanessa again
sosie sesthers > Fench sossie [twin] + German swesther [sisters] / the 2 Esthers in
Swift's life [Vanesa + Esther Johhnson, whom he called Stella]
Note sterne = star in German, Stella = in star in Italian;
Joyce's glaucoma called die Sterne in german
paragraph 3
The fall > Swift had one of his dizzy spells and fell off his horse
in front of Howth Castle once
paragraph 5
swiftly ... sternly > easy, eh?
JJ pointed out to Harriet Weaver that Sterne's style seems swift
and Swift's style seems stern
the Dean of St Patrick's before Swift another Sterne [not Lawrence] |
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Course Assignments / WEEK FOUR / Re: FW: Hostory and Resistance
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on: September 07, 2005, 10:22:22 AM
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When very young [pre-1904 self-exile] JJ and Padraic Pearse
had an argument about thunder [English] and thurnuk [Gaelic
and which 'was' more poetic.
Look at the hundred-letter word representing thunder and
note how it ends
Just for fun, see how many other words for thunder you can
find in the 100 letters.... |
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Any and Everything / Group Space / HOUSING
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on: September 07, 2005, 09:09:13 AM
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Set your search engine for Buckminster Fuller
or go to www.domehome.com
Fuller designed cheap mobile dwellings that anybody can erect in a day
[24 hous].
They can also get moved by helicopter from anywhere to
anywhere in a few days
Fuller also designed the Dew-line radar domes and over
300,000 large geodesic domes now standing.
Look into this and forward this message to anybody in the
govt. or the media who seems more interested in results
than in rhetoirc.
Most people are about as happy as they decide
to be.
--Abraham Lincoln |
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Course Assignments / WEEK FOUR / Re: FW: Hostory and Resistance
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on: September 07, 2005, 08:50:28 AM
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Cashel cathedral also noteworthy because
Silken Thomas Fitzgerald burned it during
his rebellion. He later apologized, saying
"I sincerely regret my impetuous act that day.
but I swear to God I thought the bishop
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Course Assignments / WEEK FOUR / zzplay the isomorphism game
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on: September 07, 2005, 08:27:22 AM
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17 Kupris 80 p.s.U.
In
my youth I majored in mathematics for a few years before switching to
Education and then to Psychology. Out of this strange smorgasbord, I
developed a lot of the surreal ideas in my books, and especially my
weird habit of looking at art and myth in terms of isomorphisms
["similarities of structure"].
For instance, when I first saw
Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind, I immediately saw an
isomorphism with the Grail legend. Roy [Richard Dreyfus], the contactee
most traumatized by his experience, seems like a fool to everybody --
especially to his wife. Parcifal also seems a fool, even "the perfect
fool" in Wagner's version. Yet Roy gets past the government cover-up
and enters the Mother Ship, and Parcifal passes through Chapel Perilous
and finds the Holy Grail. Since Roy and Parcifal both have lots of
companions or rivals on the Quest, one can even see an analog with the
single sperm that beats all of its brothers and reaches the Egg first...
Close
Encounters also has strong isomorphism to H.P. Lovecraft's "The Call of
Cthulhu;" but I leave that to the student's own ingenium, as Crowley
would say.
Or consider the folktale, found from Russia across
Europe to Ireland, in which a young girl on an errand of mercy meets a
cannibal in the woods. The monster sets her three riddles, and when she
solves them, instead of eating her he becomes her ally and defender.
One variation on that became "Little Red Riding Hood" and another
became The Silence of the Lambs.
The three brothers who go forth
to slay the dragon in many fairy-tales appear as the three
shark-hunters in Jaws; the Three Stooges trying to repair a plumbing
system; the Englishman, the Welshman and the Scotsman, in many jokes of
the British Isles; Smith, Jones and Robinson in logical puzzles [note
the distinctly English, Welsh and Scot names]; Dumas' Three Muskateers;
and all of these plus the three sons of Noah and the Holy Trinity in
Finnegans Wake.
You might find some amusement in discovering the
isomorphisms between Jesus' parable of the Good Samaratan, "The Little
Engine That Could," and Ulysses; you might even glimpse why Joyce, who
never used a word without intense awareness of its history, describes
Bloom as behaving "in orthodox Samaratin fashion" in the first sentence
of Book III.
Any number can play this game. Try finding the
isomorphisms between the ancient ritual of bride-capture; the Eternal
Triangle of Finn/Graunia/Dermot, Arthur/Guinevere/ Launcelot,
Mark/Isolde/Tristan etc.; Zeus and Leda, Zeus and Danae, etc.; King
Kong; Behind the Green Door; the rude man in the lower berth who
interrupts the honeymoon couple in a 1001 bawdy jokes...
The
more often you try this method, the more likely you will come to credit
something like Jung's "collective unconscious" or Sheldrake's
"morphogenetic field" and to suspect it has a structure both sexual and
mathematical, like I Ching. |
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Course Assignments / WEEK FOUR / epiphany & ideogram
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on: September 07, 2005, 08:22:49 AM
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"Shit, motherfucker! I want my fucking money, motherfucker!"
Last
night I looked at Spike Lee's superb film Jungle Fever on the
Independent Film Channel and that line hurtled off the TV and burned
into my neurons like a Joycean epiphany or a Poundian
ideogram.
The
speaker, a minor character in the story, virtually a non-character,
spoke into a cell-phone as the major character walked past him in a
crowd scene, and yet he seemingly summed up everything about our world
today.
Joyce developed his theory of the artistic epiphany from
a similarly simple sentence that he overheard passing an open window in
Dublin circa 1900. It seemed to him that with his usual mixture of
logic, empathy and artistic intuition he "knew in a flash" a great many
things about the speakers, their lives, the lives of most Dubliners,
and, by extension, the lives of colonized peoples everywhere. I invite
you to apply the same methods to the wonderful sentences Mr. Lee has
given us:
"Shit, motherfucker! I want my fucking money, motherfucker!"
In
the feudal age, people once fought wars over Land, when Land served as
the source of wealth. Those who had Land wanted more, on the usual
addictive rule that we want more of what makes us feel very very good.
They also worried that others wanted to take their Land away. Then
paper Money appeared, almost as abstract as pure information in
communication theory. For over 400 years now, the world has struggled
over Money -- working for it, swindling and robbing for it, conspiring
to monopolize it, going to war over it. Since less than one percent of
Earthians owns 99 percent of the Money, the [approximately] 6 billion
of the rest of us struggle evermore desparately over the one percent of
the green magick not yet monopolized. We all feel like Spike Lee's guy
on the cell-phone part of the time,do we not?
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Course Assignments / WEEK THREE / Re: structure and isomorphism
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on: September 03, 2005, 05:15:28 PM
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17 Kupris 80 p.s.U.
In
my youth I majored in mathematics for a few years before switching to
Education and then to Psychology. Out of this strange smorgasbord, I
developed a lot of the surreal ideas in my books, and especially my
weird habit of looking at art and myth in terms of isomorphisms
["similarities of structure"].
For instance, when I first saw
Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind, I immediately saw an
isomorphism with the Grail legend. Roy [Richard Dreyfus], the contactee
most traumatized by his experience, seems like a fool to everybody --
especially to his wife. Parcifal also seems a fool, even "the perfect
fool" in Wagner's version. Yet Roy gets past the government cover-up
and enters the Mother Ship, and Parcifal passes through Chapel Perilous
and finds the Holy Grail. Since Roy and Parcifal both have lots of
companions or rivals on the Quest, one can even see an analog with the
single sperm that beats all of its brothers and reaches the Egg first...
Close
Encounters also has strong isomorphism to H.P. Lovecraft's "The Call of
Cthulhu;" but I leave that to the student's own ingenium, as Crowley
would say.
Or consider the folktale, found from Russia across
Europe to Ireland, in which a young girl on an errand of mercy meets a
cannibal in the woods. The monster sets her three riddles, and when she
solves them, instead of eating her he becomes her ally and defender.
One variation on that became "Little Red Riding Hood" and another
became The Silence of the Lambs.
The three brothers who go forth
to slay the dragon in many fairy-tales appear as the three
shark-hunters in Jaws; the Three Stooges trying to repair a plumbing
system; the Englishman, the Welshman and the Scotsman, in many jokes of
the British Isles; Smith, Jones and Robinson in logical puzzles [note
the distinctly English, Welsh and Scot names]; Dumas' Three Muskateers;
and all of these plus the three sons of Noah and the Holy Trinity in
Finnegans Wake.
You might find some amusement in discovering the
isomorphisms between Jesus' parable of the Good Samaratan, "The Little
Engine That Could," and Ulysses; you might even glimpse why Joyce, who
never used a word without intense awareness of its history, describes
Bloom as behaving "in orthodox Samaratin fashion" in the first sentence
of Book III.
Any number can play this game. Try finding the
isomorphisms between the ancient ritual of bride-capture; the Eternal
Triangle of Finn/Graunia/Dermot, Arthur/Guinevere/ Launcelot,
Mark/Isolde/Tristan etc.; Zeus and Leda, Zeus and Danae, etc.; King
Kong; Behind the Green Door; the rude man in the lower berth who
interrupts the honeymoon couple in a 1001 bawdy jokes...
The
more often you try this method, the more likely you will come to credit
something like Jung's "collective unconscious" or Sheldrake's
"morphogenetic field" and to suspect it has a structure both sexual and
mathematical, like I Ching. |
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