off stage, that which is not fit in front of an audience was considered obscene
Finnegan's Wake
- Anne Olivia is reflecting on her life
- she is turning back into the river
- wants one who understands her
- most famous unread book in the world
- motion of the words, holds a musicality and a sense of language and poetry
- most beautiful passage of literature in the English language
- Feminine principle at work, she is all women
- Read James Joyce!!!!!
- GOOD JOB JENNY LYNN!!!!!
Thee Skin of Our Teeth By Thorton Wilder
- interpretive Finnegan's Wake
Leave behind the notion that you must understand everything
Read Jennylynn's Blog on Symposium
- Teacher's guide
- can revisit her beautiful rendition
Symposium
- basic context of the speakers
- historical context ex: Socrates was killed because he was "corrupting the youth of Athens"
- Most enjoyable thing to do is recall Socrates
Althea
- Greek word for truth
- Look at Pullman's trilogy (the Golden Compass) will find "truth seekers"
- Letha means to forget
- A= not
- in consequence literally translated truth is to not forget or REMEMBER!!!
- we have forgotten everything
Phadrues
- love and sacrifice
Pausianus
- heavenly love vs. common love
Eyrximicous
- love harmonizes us
Aeristophanes
- we are tallies (coins broken apart and used for recognition)
- look for soul mates and are a part of a broken half and look for the other that completes us
Agathon
- Love is beautiful and perfect
Socrates
- love can't be beautiful because of desire
- love is desire, love is wanting loves meaning
- love is an intermediate stage
- love is looking for that which we doe not have
- he learned it from Diotima
- she said love is a great spirit between the gods and mortals
- it is the immortality of the human soul
- we must start at the bottom (rock) and work up to love that is more complicated
- love the notion of the GOOD
Elcubiedies
- praises Socrates
- he is the worst because he loves him so much
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