1st Day of Apologies

Sarah
- Ghostlier Demarcations, Keener Sounds
- Not English Major, but embraces the power of art.
-Girl born in prison image
-Fish and Wildlife Management and Liberal Studies

Doug
-Pragmatic approach to Lit.
-German approach, he was illiterate and felt stupid.
-Basic blocks of what words are, simple letters, 26 in our alphabet/Germans 32 letters
-Within every symbol in a word, you totally change meaning of word. Same with word is where a sentence is. Same with where sentence is in paragraph, paragraph in chapter, chapter in book, and book in culture and so on.
-Culturally based literature, you can't have one without the other.
-Ovid and Homer achieve immortality because we can understand their words on paper. It is the words that give them immortality.

Jessica
-"How do I know what I think until I see what I say?"
-Plato calls poets "Liars" and "Madmen", we take English classes without knowing what they'll be about.
-Aristotle, learning to write by reading what you like.
-"The Matrix" and the Allegory of the Cave, enjoying it without this knowledge, enjoying it more with it.
-John Dunne, recon quote

Kelsey
-Worse than normal english major, english ed.
-Talked about class and how random it is.
-Without imagination, there would be no NO writers.
-"Imagine all the people" sharing all the while (Not in her speech).
-Allows me to morph into a better person/Allows me to be truly myself

Kyle 2
-"I'm an English Major because I think I do a lot more work than everyone else does."
-Receive immortality. (with culture surviving)
-Touched on touchstones.
-Personal touchstone is last lines from Robert Frost's "Road less taken"
-Matt Arnold's right - Poet informs beyond nature.

Lisa
-I'm sorry for gaining tons of knowledge from literature!
-What will I do with this Major?
-Where will I NOT go with this Major!?
-"I have an imagination to feed"
-People in other majors student's caught in Keat's "Dark Chamber", and other major's are looking for us, the secret, in the mist. They won't find it.
-Many peers caught up in age of Chaos. ("like totally awesome dude"), Economics won't take use from here. You were boring listening to my presentation.
Heather
-Not english major, why apologize.
-They have applied the work to themselves, so they should apologize to the work.
(Does she know we're not saying sorry, we're saying I love what I do!)
-Psychology major now, wants to stay connected to the literary world.
-Poetry is all around us. People go through their lives not knowing that it's all around, she doesn't want to be this.
-The ignorant owe the apologies.

Claire
-Film major, and we're all story tellers.
-Bored with reality.
-I'd rather live in someone elses world.
-Shelley lives this out best, at least writes it best. Wants to create other worlds for us.
-Suspension of Disbelief, first heard in theatre, now in literature, and on film. We accept the ridiculous because it's fun and good and somewhere deep inside we all want this.
-Don Quixote, we all want to keep the storytelling alive and in life.
-Shelley says we should live by these rules, and fiction is a catalyst. Don Quixote does this and does something that's different than everyone else. He could have done this.

Carly
-Statement of why we love literature. In Praise of my literary hero, Don Quixote.
-Don Quixotes mission is to become like his heroes, and she wants her quest to be just like that. His dignity in presenting himself is everytime more entertaining.
-He explains why he does what he does and he gets looked at as even more crazy.
-Reading and experiencing that divine is as close to bringing God to earth as we can get.
-Quoted pg. 88 from Quixote, great words.
MS - "In the prison of his days/Teach the free man how to praise." -In Memory of W.B. Yeats