Friday, November 21, 2008

Nov. 21st class- Hazelnuts and mustard seeds

Blooms introduction:  
  1. DQ is at war with Freud's reality principle
  2. DQ has double vision. neither fool nor madman
  3. Sees something else also. (Baffle us when we try to share their knowledge)

Pg. 725 Magical horse sequence: read out loud. What is there to say?!
(The Game genre)
hazelnuts and mustard seeds
If they cannot be knights, then shepherds.
How PS got away without lashes on the buttocks.

Metafiction chapter:
DQ repents for reading storybooks. But now he would read the BIBLE! 
"When I was mad, I would have given him the governorship of an...but now a kingdom!"
In will: Fake copy of Don Quixote...
"For he alone was DQ born, And I of him..." I can write and he can act...
Cervantes wrote to execrate and vilify books of chivalry...Is that the only reading?


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