tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post2746115522217983526..comments2024-03-27T01:28:28.346-07:00Comments on False Machine: A Review of Blood in the Chocolate by Kiel Chenier pjamesstuarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13288777018721199748noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-24561331799983217592017-11-24T01:48:13.828-08:002017-11-24T01:48:13.828-08:00Broodmother Sky Fortress by Jeff RientsBroodmother Sky Fortress by Jeff Rientspjamesstuarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13288777018721199748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-84072124324958361262017-11-23T23:15:15.050-08:002017-11-23T23:15:15.050-08:00Hello,
What does the acronym BSf mean?
Thank you...Hello,<br /><br />What does the acronym BSf mean?<br /><br />Thank you!<br /><br />RNinsianahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13539537016352161818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-59209823778228254832017-01-02T13:45:00.809-08:002017-01-02T13:45:00.809-08:00Dan - add me on G+ and you should be able to see i...Dan - add me on G+ and you should be able to see it.<br /><br />""THE NOETIC ROLE OF HEROIC 'HEAVY' FIGURES AND OF THE BIZARRE<br /><br />The heroic tradition of primary oral cultures and of early literate culture with its massive oral residue, relates to the agonistic lifestyle, but it is best and most radically explained in terms of the needs of oral poetic processes. Oral memory works effectively with 'heavy' characters, persons whos deeds are monumental, memorable and commonly public. Thus the noetic economy of its nature generates outsize figure, that is, heroic figures, not for romantic reasons or reflectively didactic reasons but for much more basic reasons: to organise experience in some sort or permanently memorable form. Colourless personalities cannot survive oral mnemonics. To assure weight and memorability, heroic figures tend to be type figures: wise Nestor, furious Achillies, clever Odysseus, omnicompitent Mwindo ('LIttle-One-Just-Born-He-Walked', Kabutwa-kenda, his common epithet). The same mnemonic or poetic economy enforces itself still where oral settings persist in literate cultures, as in the telling of fairy stories to children: the overpoweringly innocent Little Red Riding Hood, the unfathomably wicked wolf, the incredibly tall beanstalk that Jack has to climb - for non-human figures acquire heroic dimensions, too. Bizarre figures here add another mnemonic aid: it is easier to remember the Cyclops than a two-eyed monster, or Cerberus than an ordinary one-headed dog. Formulary number groupings are likewise mnemonically helpful: The Seven Against Thebes, the Three Graces, the Three Fates, and so on. All this is not meant to deny that other forces beside mere mnemonic serviceability produce heroic figures and groupings. Psychoanalytic theory can explain a great many of these forces. But in an oral poetic economy, mnemonic serviceability is a sine qua non, and no matter what the other forces, without proper mnemonic shaping of verbalisation the figures will not survive. <br /> As writing and eventually print gradually alter the old oral poetic structures, narrative builds less and less on 'heavy' figures until, some three centuries after print, it can move comfortably in the ordinary human lifeworld typical of the novel. Here, in place of the hero, one eventually encounters even the antihero, who, instead of facing up to the foe, constantly turns tail and runs away, as the protagonist in John Updike's Rabbit Run. The heroic and marvelous had served a specific function in organizing knowledge in an oral world. With the control of information and memory brought about by writing and, more intensely, by print, you do not need a hero ion the old sense to mobilise knowledge in story form. The situation has nothing to do with a putative 'loss of ideals'." - Walter J. Ong 'Orality and Literacy'"pjamesstuarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13288777018721199748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-40789972510594523462016-12-29T15:18:27.400-08:002016-12-29T15:18:27.400-08:00Blast, getting a 404 on that.Blast, getting a 404 on that.Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00694362417308874455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-85378964671355805192016-12-28T20:55:39.676-08:002016-12-28T20:55:39.676-08:00Hey Dan - I think it's https://plus.google.com...Hey Dan - I think it's https://plus.google.com/104778332638489294828/posts/5Yf3ftChN3G?sfc=trueCharliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11639621838994442926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-78903928013376118772016-12-28T19:23:12.493-08:002016-12-28T19:23:12.493-08:00That other post sounds interesting / useful for ru...That other post sounds interesting / useful for running this adventure, but I'm an idiot who can't navigate Google+. What was your idea?Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00694362417308874455noreply@blogger.com