Nabokov - Day One

I walk in and recognize them all..... I do recognize most of them..... I remember their names..... Zach of the Saving Bells, Joan Gossimer Von Goss, James the Rat, Robert of the Worded Limbs, Emo Erin, Charismatic Kari, Jana the Tamer of Horses, Parker of the Outback, Za Zen Zack, and all the others whose names reach the tip of my tongue but don't quite form.... I'll recognize them always.

pg. 316 from Lollita

Reading the class role that becomes a poem, an infatuation, of the girl he loves

Dolores Hayes... Lollita... She is there, between the Roses

(I got a funny look from him when he got to Clark, lol)

Our class list: (spelled the way I heard them, I think that adds to the art of it all ;)

Abate, Aaron

Appling, Elisa

Belaire, Aaron

Benson, Adam

Bowles, Kari

Buzzas, Abbie

Clanton, Samantha

Clark, Christopher

Canal, Parker

Curry, Jana

Diem, Chelsie

Donoho, Emily

Eastmen, Tonia

Figist, Douglas

Goss, Joan

Hale, Victoria

Scott, Jeff

Kester, Rachel

Keinitz, Jyle

Raquel, Kober

Kushman, James (I missed somebody here, :( couldn't keep up)

Loomis, Robert

Meyer, Lisa

Morris, Zachary

Mortinson, Aron

Murphy, Kaitlin

Nelson, Christina

Orsie, Johnathan

Hoser, Jennifer

Ried, Brittany

Smith, Zachary

Springer, Amanda

Stanley, Jenny Lynn

Stryckler, Lee

Thouline, Riley

Wootan, Chris

Ziggler, Rebecca

Zignego, Jordan Zobel, Jessica Zigglerlicky,

“These are the type of situations that poets love and logisticians loathe...”

• MS

Reading through the scriptures.... I mean the syllabus.

Drew a picture of a butterfly on the board.... the butterfly is the soul. PSYCHE – is the greek word for soul

Talking now about his Emergent Lit. Class next semester....The theme of the eternal return – Finnegan's Wake – High Brow, Groundhog Day – Low Brow

Lollita is all about – Time and Memory..... Nabokov is all about Time and Memory

****Speak Memory – First Assignment to read..... wants it read by next Tuesday****

****”And the next best thing to pondering eternity is to ponder your childhood. “ Nabokov****

**** Write about your childhood and your first memory on your blog****

What's important about Nabokov? It's his style. Style is matter.

If you change your style, you will change your subject matter.

Nabokov was one of the first people that introduced people to literature in style.

It's all mimicry, imitation. The autobiography is a butterfly.

They will produce in their wings things that have absolutely no utilatarianism to it other than to just mimic.

So it must not be parapsychology....it must be ART! It is the one thing that it solely non-utilitarianism.

Art comes to you for pleasure in a moment, for nothing more than that moment, celebrating only that moment.

Ecstasy – to stand outside yourself – Nabokov does this to you

Now we will take pictures and talk talk talk.