Class Notes 2/3

Class Notes Feb 3rd.

Eliot and Joyce interested in the tension between past and present.

The Dead and this Capstone class both structured the same way. Heading towards a still point.

Lily - lila - great dance of the universe, 'after the ecstasy comes the laundry' - we gt back to the everyday life. Lilies are often flowers at funerals.

Theophoric names - Michael (One who is like God) and Gabriel.

Lass of Aughrim is about seduction and abandonment. banisters. the banistars.

While reading Joyce we need to pay special attention to the details.

upturned faces around the dinner table in The Dead, like a cemetary.

Derek, Joan, Sam, ZuZu, Brianne, Jennie Lynn, and Adam presented their diamonds. See their blogs.

Dr Sexson: Joyce does have a moral to the story in The Dead, page 152, "Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and with dismally with age." A good moral, penultimate because to follow is a vision experienced by the nervous system.

Memorize the last paragraph in The Dead for extra credit and a spiritual reward, and a change in personality. The last paragraph just doesn't get better than that.