Notes January 14

• memory palaces
• the odder and more interesting the better
• allows the entire universe to be held within the mind
• Henrik Ibsen
• plays
• A Doll's House
• Go out and hug a tree
• need proof of a picture
• Daphne & Apollo
• Adonis' birth
• according to myth
• everything is alive
• braving obstacles
• mythology in daily life
• signs, clues, and symbols
• Call to Adventure
• we all have our own 
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth
• all stories are degenerate or de-generated myths
• Contract with the frog
• Don't forget
• Princess and the Frog
• really a call to adventure
• Monomyth
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth
• separation, initiation, and transformation
• After Ovid: New Metamorphoses
• one of Dr. S favorite quotes
• contemporary reality
• Ovid still applicable
• "mythical key to extreme forms of human behavior"
• Extreme Human Behavior:
• holocaust, sexual harassment, suicide, sex change, torture war, and etc....
• Italo Calvino
• writer
• compact point at the beginning of the world
• Big Bang Theory
• Ovid is a story of rapidity 
• overlapping & high speed
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