Notes 10/27

People

Lewis Carroll-- Found the didacticism in fairy tales and children's lit. to be annoying so he responded with cynicism, parody, critique, viciousness.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_carroll

Northrop Frye-- Literature liberates us into play.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Frye

William Bennett-- Concerned with "morals". Secretary of Education under Reagan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bennett

Oscar Wilde-- Life is an imitation of art.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde

Terminology

*Sublime-impressing the mind with a sense of grandeur or power; inspiring awe, veneration, etc.

*Esoteric-understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest; recondite

*Talking Head-1. Television Slang. a closeup picture of a person who is talking, esp. as a participant in a talk show.
2.Slang. a person whose talk is empty and pretentious.

*Eviscerating- to remove the entrails from; disembowel, to deprive of vital or essential parts


Other Notes

*"All art aspire to the condition of music."-- Arthur Schopenhauer

*Matrix based on "Alice In Wonderland"

*Next to Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll most quoted author in English.

*Plato's "Allegory of the Cave"-- tricking into believing that it is real.

*Communion as cannibalism-- "Juniper Tree" eating of the child. Also, "Hansel and Gretel" witch seems to want to digest the children to consume their youth. Eternal life.

*Nonsense in Carroll as hiding the moral.

*"Never trust the teller, trust the tale"- DH Lawrence

*Mary and Martha new testament biblical story Luke 10:38-42 parallel to Ant and Grasshopper in Aesop's fables. Idleness as immoral, and idleness as being the "one thing".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ant_and_the_Grasshopper