Class Notes 2/10

1. Brother Karamazov
*Should have finished part 1 of Brothers K
-DONT watch Brother K 1960's movie, its "awful"
*Struggling from darkness of soul to lightness of love
-This brothers earliest memory is of "an open window, slanting rays of the setting sun, his mother shrieking and sobbing"

2. Garden of Eden story
*"The Fall" -- disobedience
-Does the crime always fit the punishment?

3. Psyche & Eros
*Psyche "fell in love with love"
-Eros=Love <3
*Venus gives Psyche impossible tasks because of jealousy for her beauty
*the last and final task is to travel to the underworld to retrieve a box of cosmetics for Venus
-Venus said "DONT look in the box"
-She obviously looks in the box and falls helplessly to the ground
*Eros becomes worried and flies down to save Psyche and revives her with a kiss.. they fall in love all over again and have a baby

4. Fall of Icarus
*Blog about the painting
-"He turned his thinking toward unknown arts"
-"I warn you Icarus, fly the middle course" .. his father's last words to Icarus
*There is NO MORAL to the story
*If there is a moral, it is the story, not some detachable experience

5. Lot's Wife
*Don't look back when you are not supposed too
*Vonnegut -- "So it goes"
*"Dont look back" == IRONY

6. W.H. Auden
*"Fears of the world are a constant quanity"
*Three great tradgedies
-1.King Lear
-2.Something from the Bible (sorry didn't catch exactly what he said)
-3.Brothers Karamazov
*Investigation into the world of suffering


hopefully these make some form of sense :)