Friday, September 30, 2005
Frye(2)
I'm still only getting through Fry 5 or 10 pages at a time. I have the sense that this is because he speaks only of his ideas and does not weave some great story with his words. The light bulbs are not particularly illuminating for me. I have the sense that this is because he drains me and I'm too tired to enjoy his light. It never feels very gentle. That must be why I enjoy my lava lamp so much.
Some Lightbulbish things:
ugh. makes my brain feel like one of those brown mashy bananas.
Some Lightbulbish things:
- p19 "The voice of reason is often weak and ineffectual, however, because of the difference between the reasonable and the rational."
- p25 "We distinguish two forms of rhetoric which, if not always debased, are certainly suspect: propaganda and advertising."
- p42 "[The social contract, patriotic and other forms of loyalty, religious beliefs, and class conditioned attitudes and behavoir]... develope from the ideological aspect of myth, and consequently tend to be directly expressed in ideological prose language."
- p61 "The point is not that myth falsifies history, but that history, the continuous record of what ascendant ideologies do, falsifies primary concern."
- p63 "Literature is an art of words."
- p82 "The discoverer of the principle that all verbal structures descend from mythological origins was Vico, and Vico's axiom was verum factum: what is true for us is what we have made.
- p96 "Literature is a technique of meditation, in the widest and most flexible sense."
ugh. makes my brain feel like one of those brown mashy bananas.
