Test Info: A Recap.

So we went over the test today... what would be on it, And for my benefit (yours as well) I'm typing out a recap. Enjoy!

Info from Kane (for the record, Kane is my favorite so far):

1) Moonbones (Illustrate's repetition)
2) Property and it's effect on an oral culture
3) Agriculture's effect on the human connection to the land (and consequently it's conection to orality)
4)Practicality of orality (Red sky at night, sailors take delight; Red sky in the morning, sailors take warning)
5)White berries (don't eat them!)
6) Caribou and frogs (frog as the guardian of the river, caribou returning to the spirit world.)
7)Kane's definition of Myth: The song the earth sings to itself. We just happen to hear every now and then.

Info from Ong:

1) Primary Orality: An oral culture uses only oral comunication (thought: American indian cultures had smoke signals, but are commonly thought of as primarily oral)
2) Secondary orality: A mostly oral culture heavily influenced by written language (welcome to everything as we know it)
3) Chirographic- Writing culture (pre- printing press)
4) Typographic- Typing culture (Hello modern era: Post printing press)
----Parataxis- clauses joined without conjunction
----Bicameralism- Decisions made with both the mind and the soul
5)Vision vs. sound (check out p. 72)
6) Platos Denounciation of written language (p. 79 in Ong and p. 38 in Yates)

Info from Dame Yates:

1) The story of Simonedes tells the importance of memory (remember the banquet catastrophy) 2)Rhetoric> Ethics> Cosmos (Cronological view of memory. Check out p. 38-39)
3)The story of Augustin (p. 48) Knowledge of the devine.

Our contribution (well, YOUR contribution. I wanted to talk about agriculture bu it was covered):

1) Seven liberal arts (GGRAMAD) Gramar, Geometry, Rhetoric, Arithmatic, Music, astronomy, and dialect.
2) Neoplatonism = Mysticism
3) John Nay's B-day!!!
4) Anamnesis: The recolection of EVERYTHING
5)Bruno was burned february 17, 1600 (dates... not my forte)
7)The 9 muses and Ong's 9 properties of orality (Erato turns up the heat)
8) Bicameralism (look it up in Ong)
9)Esoteric: Secrets from the unwashed masses!
10) Imagination= 1 hour photo for memory.
11)Remember Shahar Azad (Spelling?) of 1001 nights
12)The distinction between natural and artificial memory.
13) Collective Vs. Personal unconsiouse.
14)Plato: Writing establishes outside of the mind that which should remain in the mind. (Plato was paranoid)
15)Green Blood... Nuf' said.
16)Kevin's three topics of interest concerning memory ARE: Memory, imagination and soul
17) The three epthets given by Ong: Sturdy Oak, Beautiful Princess, Brave Soldier (our own are Keen Kenning Ben and Kate of the Beautiful Eyes)







Jeeze! it's late!!!