LIT285-October 19 lecture notes
Assignment: Become an expert on assigned story and prepare for a 1-min presentation
Blog: BAD DAY
*Beauty and terror together: go out and have a sublime experience
Call and response of our blogs: inspire, become inspired
Theodicy: the vindication of divine goodness and providence in view of the existence of evil
In the Bible, a really really bad day: The Book of Job
-Within a matter of min, Job loses everything from his family to his wealth and health b/c he is living too righteously
-How do you justify having a bad day?
Bad things happen all the time, but observed in the right light, it can show positive outcomes b/c you may come out stronger on the other side
-“That which not does not kill me, only makes me stronger” –Nietzshe
-“That, that, that, don’t kill me….” –Kanye West
-“A blessing in disguise”
Conversely, something that good happens originally, can end up having negative consequences
-i.e. you win the lottery but……______________ fill in the blank!
Why do we suffer?
-“We suffer so that the poets will have something to write about”
-Country music anyone? Lost my wife, she took the dog, house burned down, and my truck broke down
Add to the Reading List: Haroun, and the Sea of Stories
The Oresteia: “We suffer, we suffer into truth, and we suffer to find truth”
Book VI: What is the very worst the human mind can imagine?
Tereus, Procne, Philomela:
Tereus and Procne are married, Juno wasn’t present
-Given a son, Itys
Procne, bored with married life, sends Tereus to fetch her sister; he ends up raping her and cutting out her tongue so she can’t cry out.
-Sister, Philomela, weaves a tapestry of her rape tale and gives it to her sister
-Procne, enraged, kills her son and feeds him to Tereus
*Both are beyond words in anger and are morphed into hoopoe birds, “every ready to attack”
**hope these notes are complete enough to get the lecture experience! Let me know if you have any suggestions about how I can make them more detailed or more comprehensive! :)
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