http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/rnzamperinidavid_blog_22 Just another Lyceum weblog Thu, 07 Dec 2006 03:24:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I think the most obvious "trickster" in the stories so far is the mouse that ends up dividing a family. The mouse ran up the wife's pant leg and her husband and son did nothing but laugh. After the mouse ran to the front yard she just went ... http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/rnzamperinidavid_blog_22/2006/12/06/trickster/ The conflict between McMurphy and Nurse Ratched seems to me an obvious analogy for what the author was going through. The author was in to the whole hippie movement doing drugs especially LSD (I believe this to be right, I may be wrong). But McMurphy's whole point in ... http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/rnzamperinidavid_blog_22/2006/12/01/revolution-vs-authority/ In Blood Wedding marriage is a key concept. Unlike our modern society where marriage is seen as commitment based on love and equal partnership, this is untrue in Blood Wedding. Marriage seems to be more about social position and possible material wealth gained by a transaction. It ... http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/rnzamperinidavid_blog_22/2006/11/07/marriage/ I agree with the concept of Darwinian capitalism. Maybe not the Darwinian part but of capitalism over communism. People should work for what they get and be rewarded for their deeds. In Communism everyone gets the same share no matter if you are lazy or work the ... http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/rnzamperinidavid_blog_22/2006/10/15/darwinian-capitalism-and-communist-social-justice/ I think these forms of digital literature are interesting but something I wouldn't do. They aren't frustrating to me. I don't see any meaning to them. I see them as pointless and simply a means of allievating boredom. The words in the one game go to ... http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/rnzamperinidavid_blog_22/2006/10/08/author-and-digital-literature/ I do not usually consider something like the corrido as literature but more as lyrics. Literature to me is more of fictious novels. But there are many forms of literature and the corrido form is one where as time goes by the story loses the nonessentail aspects. ... http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/rnzamperinidavid_blog_22/2006/10/01/corrido/ The Laguna culture is much like most Native Americans, who believe in nature spirits and take only what they need of the land. Unlike the Laguna, the European invaders destroy the land taking more then they need. The Laguna tell a story of how the European invaders came ... http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/rnzamperinidavid_blog_22/2006/09/20/296/ The way in which literature is written greatly effects the reading experience. Literature written in post Civil War African American vernacular like the Uncle Remus story is very different the Shakespeare or Steven Pressfield. For a story to interest me it must be written in proper, modern English. Unless ... http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/rnzamperinidavid_blog_22/2006/09/13/language/ Popular forms such as fairy tales or blues lyrics could be considered literature. Literature is nothing more then a means to express ideas, tell stories, or take a look into ones self of surroundings. Literature is a means to escape from the real world. You get lost in ... http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/rnzamperinidavid_blog_22/2006/09/13/popular-forms-vs-literature/ A fairy tale is a fairy tale. You can read into almost anything. A new perception or or different way of seeing something can always atler what was originally intended by the author. As adults it is possible to see something that may or may ... http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/rnzamperinidavid_blog_22/2006/09/09/why-fairy-tales/