notes 9/27/11

• When the story changes it actually confirms the story.
• By trying to escape your fate you run right into it.
• Procrustean argument - arrange facts to make it shorter or longer then your original thought.
• Fin- means means end, dead, kick the bucket.
• Wake- is the end of a funeral and waking up.
• Myth is the precedent behind every action.
• Example from Wizard of Oz, Dorothy meets Amagus(magician), then she goes home. 
• Everything you need in mythology you can find in the Wizard of Oz.
• Harry Potter! Rowling recast events that happened already with Mythology. 
• There's no story unless conflict exists, because after all how interesting would a story be with out conflict?
• Mythology is the machinery behind the events that happen.
• Jenny Thornburg's is an example of what to do with the blog
• Sparagmas- Dismemberment ancient Dionysian ritual when an animal or human is sacrificed by dismemberment. 
• Omophagia- eating of raw flesh of the one dismembered. 
• Eucharist- bread represents body of Christ and the wine represents the blood of Christ
• How Calasso thinks it began...pg 5. 3rd paragraph
• 2 words make sense of Calasso: abduction and metamorphosis