I had to laugh in class on Friday when Dr. Sexson asked Helena, "What have we done with all this time?" and Helena responded quietly and hesitantly, "nothing???" It was amazing- her voice fit with the confusion and wonderment so well!
Dr. Sexson also began discussing whether Eliot was attempting to convert the readers to Christianity. False. It reminded me of a deep discussion I had the other night about religion, spirituality and soul, and where the lines between them are drawn. This discussion somehow lead to an argument as to whether science or religion is more credible and la la la...controversy. Surprisingly this led to 3 English majors on one side of the table and 2 "others" on the other side (haha) we began reading from Ulysses and I was in awe by the beauty of it and the complexity- I loved every word of it. It was intimate and breath taking. There was silence until one of the "others" laughed and said "Do you guys even know what that is saying? It doesn't even make sense." I had to laugh back at his reaction...I know this story is completely random but I loved that a discussion of Eliot and Beckett in regards ot religion and spirituality can lead to an argument of science and then to Ulysses...how that happened I do not remember- much led up to it.
Some things that stuck out to me during Friday's class were:
*Deception...what were we talking about in regards to this? I completely forgot...
*Alternate reality: the movie sliding doors is slow beginning and the first time I sat down to watch it, I turned it off before the train scene. It is a movie you have to watch with a light attitude...I don't know how to explain it, you just have to watch it. This alternate reality she is experiencing is so crazy and it almost makes me dizzy thinking about her "lives"
*Memories: There is what we did do and what we didn't do........In class we were discussing memories and how we remember what we did do, but do we remember what we didn't do? What struck me in class was that all of a sudden many things I wish I had done but didn't came back to my mind. So, i thought that of course we remember what we didn't do. Though then again there are also things that we didn't do and can't remember because they never happened, how could we remember something that never existed?
"When you go up, you're actually going down into the darkness"---"The way up is the way down"
- are we always descending?
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