Notes April 8

• Final Exam
• Paper Due
• when presenting
• based upon mythic detective presentation
• informal and entertaining
• term paper and final presentation are the same thing
• also post on blog
• Presentations will begin on the 15th
• start as before A-Z
• After Ovid
• Michael Hoffman
• famous poets create updated versions of Ovid's work
• Mitas Story & the Golden Touch
• Mrs. Midas 
• Michael Longley
• According to Pyathagoras
• based off of Book 15
• focuses on The End
• gross disgusting end 
• Ring-Around the Rosie
• The End by The Doors
• Oedipus Story
• The Doors (Jim Morrison)
• associated with the gods Adonis
• butterfly=pysche
• fundamental interconnectedness of all things
• The End
• graduation
• flowering or assuming of wings
• fulfilled purpose
• Plato
• perceive fulfillment of end purpose of existence (education) should feel shoulder blades itching- wings are sprouting
• knowledge until fall from grace into the mud then born into humanity grow unto knowledge again
• Tabula rasa
• blank slate on which the world writes things
• purpose of life is to remember the things that you already knew in a previous state
• Meno - Plato
• socratic dialogue
• definition of virtue (arete) 
• kid in the sand had to remember how to do a math problem without the education
• Anamnesis - Plato
• ideas that humans possess knowledge from past incarnations and that learning consists of rediscovering that knowledge within us
• page 419 Ovid
• Book of Daniel
• apocalyptic stuff
• Ozymandias
• Percy Shelley
• Turner- happy ending
• Sexson- apocalypse
• Ecclesiastes
• last paragraph
• beautiful apocalypse
• about people getting old