week 2 cont.

Wednesday January 24

chorus sings: I thought this was really funny, and interesting! You can find it on wiki using the link from 'chorus sings' "Use of the chorus can be seen not only in ancient Greek tragedies, but also in more recent works such as Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet,' the musical/film 'Little Shop of Horrors,' the Farrelly brothers' film 'There's Something About Mary', Leonard Bernstein's one-act opera 'Trouble in Tahiti,' and the Woody Allen film 'Mighty Aphrodite'."








Captain Picard!!

dialectic: a conversation between peers

"If you can't believe Captain Picard, who the hell can you believe?" ~Dr. Sexson

The Epic of Gilgamesh: an epic poem from Babylonia and is among the earliest known literary works. A series of Sumerian legends and poems about the mythological hero-king Gilgamesh, thought to be a ruler of the 3rd millennium BC, were gathered into a longer Akkadian poem long afterward, with the most complete version extant today preserved on twelve clay tablets in the library collection of the 7th century BC Assyrian king Assurbanipal.
One of the stories included in the epic relates to the deluge. The essential story revolves around the relationship between Gilgamesh, a king who has become distracted and disheartened by his rule, and a friend, Enkidu, who is half-wild and who undertakes dangerous quests with Gilgamesh. Much of the epic focuses on Gilgamesh's feelings of loss following Enkidu's death, and is often credited by historians as being one of the first literary works with high emphasis on immortality. (all in read from wiki)

• The stories about today are empty unless they are energized by the past
• Everything you read has behind it another story

The notorious William Randolph Hearst is back again! He, and his crazy granddaughter Patty are still making headlines years later! All thanks to Citizen Kane, and her interesting love affair...