Class Notes 3/10

***EXTRA CREDIT***
People in class Friday, 3/12 before spring break will be given extra credit.

after looking at art.....everything is changed, the world changes, or strange coincidences happen

"The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love." - Meister Eckhart

Hindu philosophy,Advaita Vedanta philosophy, it is all an illusion. Everything is Maya. Since Brahman is the only truth, Maya cannot be true. Imaginary man running up an imaginary tree from an imaginary Elephant.

Dr. Sexson's epiphany: Houston Smith, Dr. Sexson's Capstone teacher, focusing on the Advaita Vedanta, Dr. Sexson got nostalgic for the class and looked up Houston Smith, friends with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert(Ram Dass), wrote The Only Dance There Is......rearrange the words, There is only the dance, see T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets, Burnt Norton:
"There would be no dance, and there is only the dance."

Movie, Run Lola Run

Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse
can be described as a book one has difficulty with, boring....
Kevin: find something your interested to follow, like the tide epiphanies
Rian: novel underscoring the transition to Hamlet and the Bhagavad Gita

Wallace Stevens, How To Live, What To Do

McNabb & Kafka's Metamorphoses - sweeping it all away

Mrs. Ramsey, knitting stocking, never get it done.....mythical......Penelope, wife of Odysseus, in Ithaca, to delay suitors....weaving & never fitting...(also reminded me a bit of Arachne)
activity of weaving
tides - eternal rhythm of filling up and emptying out

Taylor: Nancy at the tide pool, page 75, humans and the divine....blurring the line, metamorphosing between Gods and humans....

Robert: Neptune, read his blog

How to live, what to do
answer is becoming clear...
become gods, try to become gods, or be aware of the ways...

SEE! page 112, Mrs. Ramsay

Taylor, Orpheus myth, highly functional in To The Lighthouse, condition of the artist, enchantment by art, scopophilia (love of looking), through art get intimations of immortality.

Lily, artist, get painting just right...the lighthouse...., Mrs. Ramsay, Mr. Ramsay...

Matrix, uterus, womb, like a book embedded with epiphanies, a ground mass embedded with fossils.....
Mick: page fallen out of his book happens to be page 285-6, (in my book it's 192)
Lily going to the lighthouse in her own way...not literally
needs to hear primal sounds

Odysseus and the Sirens

Central myth in To The Lighthouse, from page 1 to the end. The relationship between mothers and daughters, Demeter and Persephone

as dead, Mrs. Ramsay is more powerful to Lily