1. CHAPTER BY WALTER ONG, SJ FROM “ORALITY AND LITERACY: THE TECHNOLOGIZING OF THE WORLD” Writing Restructures Consciousness

2. Memory and Wisdom

3. Telephone How much do you recall from the message? Why is this important? Are you more or less wise than people of the past?

4. List Dog Seven 45 Lightning 78 Wrong Blue Carroll Hall Terror

5. Method of Loci “Method of loci To use the method of loci bring to mind a familiar building, such as your house. Take a moment to conduct a mental walk through the rooms in your house. Pay particular attention to the details, noticing any imperfections, like scratches: anything that makes your mental images more vivid. Make sure you can move easily from one room to another. Along your route create a list of "loci" :i.e. well defined parts of the room that you can use later to memorize things. A locus can be a door, a bed, an oven, etc. Be sure that you can easily go from locus to locus as you visit the house. Now, when you are faced with a list of words or ideas to be memorized, you must form visual images for each of the words and place them, in order, on the loci in your route. To recall the words or ideas now you take a mental walk throughout your house, asking yourself, "What is on the living-room door? What's on the sleeping room bed. What's in the oven?" And so on. Associating the words or ideas to remember with the loci, you should create surprising images. More striking is the created image, more easily you will remember the thing.” From http://www.ba.infn.it/~zito/loci.htmlhttp://www.ba.infn.it/~zito/loci.html

6. Natural/Not Natural

7. Clarity and Analysis

8. The Clarity of Analysis That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action.--Soft you now! The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remember'd. To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns

9. Tone

10. To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks … Or….

11. Writing and the Plot of History

12. Who is your favorite character from history? How is their story retold? Who retells a story? How does that change a character? How do you narratize your own story? Who is a character from your families past? How would a written account change the past?

13. Speech or Writing Example: Prompt: What is your favorite breakfast cereal and why?

14. Deformity of Text

15. Goldilocks Make a list of all the things in Goldilocks. What does this tell us about the meaning of the myth…? Make a list of all the events of your day. Does it accurately tell your story?

16. Paradox of Technology

17. Sound

18. Music and Words Experience 1 Experience 2

19. Sound to Thing

20. Mad MAD

21. Flexible Time