Presentation Notes from 12/7/06

Presentations 12/7/06
- subject of innocence is the reader

Stacy:
-Dead Man – Xebeche and Bill Blake image in Lone Ranger
- white horse as image of courage.
- red horse = death on the battle field
- Xebeche rode pale horse
- connection to Michael Butler (Podcaster) – writer of Clint Eastwood’s Pale Rider

Mick
- Lolita and Chess
- worse thing to happen in chess is to lose your queen:
only two good things can happen if you lose your queen:
1)
- first marriage is a sham, it’s a chess game.
- references of Lolita being his queen
- when you play chess it is violent and beautiful. You must leave your pieces open, and you must sacrifice them.

Debbie
- moment of abduction – it’s the only story that’s ever been
- abduction occurs not because of the author, but it is the imagination of the reader.

Marleau
- Gematria – playng with with words
- Nero Caesar and numbers.
- RQS = Ras the exhorter. It also means Nero
- Elision plays with this same stuff.

Judson
- images of rage, anger, and race in IM
- Elision’s IM instills rage
- We see through race and see the individual

Rae-Ann
- refiguring of Daisy Miller’s innocence.
- innocence as ploy in O’Connor’s Wise Blood.
- same stuff at work in Lolita
- use of innocence ploy to get what they want
- innocence can be used to manipulate the story and reader

Sarah
- realization and invisibility
- Mote means speck – unable to see clearly
- Hazel Motes means Blindness
- Bill Blake is blind because he’s dead?

Karen
- women and literature
- people misinterpret what feminism is
- examined how the women appear in the stories we read and how they shape our ideas
- Mules and Men has the most real women
- Dorothy is the most powerless, followed by Lolita

Jessie
-Foreshadowing in Lolita
- using letter Q as this vehicle

Allision
- Paper on Coincidences
- power of naming something
- Alice in wonderland (Disney) line up screams with doorknob and scream on Dark Side of the Moon
- emperor of ice cream and the onion horoscope

Jacob
- interconnectivity in all things
- patchwork of Wallace Stevens: “This Beautiful World of Ours.”

Marti
- picture of class: Sun, Road, Ceremony, Zoo, New York, Rhinehart, Emerald City, No Heaven, American Gothic, Lucas, Marleau, Kayla, as leaders, Creativists and Decreativists, Xanadu, Woods of Faulkner, Roalroad, Michael on top of volcano reading, and lady singing from beach.
- Idea of Order at Key West is a prayer for class.

Kayla:
- Idea of Order at Key West recitation
- it is a haunting poem