On The Class Blogs

Personally, my favorite part of Shaman Sexson's teaching technique is the use of our blogs. I find it to be the most useful tool in my college career. It gives him his "time" to episodically rant wisdom slowly into our mind over the semester, and it gives us our time to discuss the ideas that his lectures and our readings bring up.

I read all of the blogs. It's after textsfromlastnight and before Facebook. They've all given me insight. And it's not so much my favorite blogger, as those blogs that have had a profound influence on my own thoughts.

Lets begin. For starters, Kyle Kenitz's blog about his Terrifying Mental Maneuver's was awesome. It got me all riled up on dreams and interpretations and really brought back the idea of what dreams are.

Rio has been a champ all semester. With his smart pen, and his constant blogging (and I'll forgive his slight obsession with his cat). Rio I really connect with your description in your latest blog about having to relearn to read without the pen. I feel you. There is being a scholar and a being a reader, and often we don't discern between the two. Personally, Rio, I felt disenchanted on my second reading of The Following Story. And the disenchantment did not ruin the story whatsoever. I merely understood the rapture that had enclosed me from the beginning. The Themes we have just studied are all one in the same. They are overlapping because they are apart of the journey/ or are the journey, that we have to take to gain wisdom. The myth of the eternal recurrence is the same as Dolce Dommum. (Up is Down just as much as Left is Right.) And I would say more, but I've yet to find words to describe what I know.

Alicia. Your reading into my blog about being Stupid really hit the point exactly. Wisdom is not something of value in our society. They say Don't Be Smart, but what they mean is Wisdom is useless. If everyone were to look around them would you not say that the most of people are extremely unwise in there decision making? I really enjoy reading your writing. You have a way of bring your life and passion into your blogs that I always find enjoyable.

Zach of The Saving Bells. The Four Quartets and Eastern Thoughts is one of my favorite blogs. You definitely read Kerouac don't you?

Goss. Your thesis sounds awesome and I'm excited to hear/read it.

Thomas. Your obsession with Harry Potter is awesome. (Do you remember how you said Sherlock Holmes is everywhere in Finnegans Wake? Do you notice him anywhere on television?)

Christina. Your blogs are probably the most elaborate and well put together of the class. It's nice to have someone who can supply the flow of their thoughts. (Cause I definitely cannot)

Bizz. This quote from Full Metal Alchemist which you supplied has had a profound influence on the way I've thought about the entire class. It capture its cycle:

"Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's first law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only truth."

Thank you bizz.


Bri. I think you have Dr. Sexson wrong in his explanation. He does not believe we need to give up lowbrow (he himself still reads lowbrow books) but that we should move on with age into bigger things. I don't believe Sexson was attacking lowbrow books so much as an elderly gentlemen reading youth literature. It makes sense doesn't it? We enjoy children's books from our adolescence now because we enjoyed them then. When we reread them, it recreates the past memories of what we enjoyed. But imagine picking up a Children's novel nowadays. Can you really enjoy it? No. You can't. I think that is what Sexson is trying to say.

Jon. What Can I Say? We discuss it everyday in Brit Lit.

Zack Eggemyer- Your explanation of The Matrix is beautiful. I love it. I reread it again. and Again. Profound. Elegant.

Jennie Lynn. I know that your busy with classes and whatnot, but I do miss your blogging.

Sam. What has everyone not already said?

I'm tired of writing but just so everyone knows, I do read your blogs, and there is barely anyone that does leave me deep in thoughts.