Notes February 4

• Little Gidding TS Elliot

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  TS Elliot

  We shall not cease from exploration
  And the end of all our exploring
  Will be to arrive where we started
  And know the place for the first time.
  Through the unknown, unremembered gate
  When the last of earth left to discover
  Is that which was the beginning;
  At the source of the longest river
  The voice of the hidden waterfall
  And the children in the apple-tree
  Not known, because not looked for
  But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
  Between two waves of the sea.
  
  
• Back at the beginning of metamorphosis
• cycle of mythology
• Initiation Experience
• Next assignment
• Presentation on Initiation
• Painful romance
• needs to be part of your presentation
• Pain and Suffering
• Dates to be decided
• 3 Minutes 
• Wikipedia Initiation
• Mircea Eliade: one of most knowledgable people about mythological initiation
• Types of Initiation
• Puberty Rites
• Entering into a Secret Society
• Mystical Vocation
• Can be broken down even farther
• Puberty Rites
• Specialized Initiations
• Three sections of the class
• Creation
• Initiation
• Apocalypse
• Through a Glass Darkly
• St. Paul
• Corinthians
• Tests
• Need to know creation stories -will discuss specific parts and aspects
• Stories from Ovid's Metamorphosis- will discuss specific parts and aspects
• Day before exam, please come to class with multiple choice questions that you would like to have on the exam
• don't make them too simple or Dr. S will not accept them
• don't make them too hard or Dr. S will not accept them
• Please bring 1 
• Etiology will be on test
• No matching questions
• The Swerve Stephen Greenblatt
• Lubricious
• Ovid
• Creation vs Evolution
• on the fence between the two
• Its a story either way
• Prometheus
• bodily fluids
• seen in presentation: blood, sweat, tears
• Apocalypse
• removal of the veil
• comes from Calypso
• Dante's Inferno
• Catholic
• means all embracing
• Check out Aaron's blog on the similarities of the creation myths
• Repetition of stories
• children need it
• haven't learned how to be bored