Everyone has heard a noise while they are asleep and it incorporates into a part of their dream. The noise I heard turned my dream into a nightmare. It started off like the low moan of a sobbing prisoner. Then it crescendos into a violent wail of a screeching monkey being beaten.
I looked off my balcony to see that it really was one of Penelope's cats screaming to be fed. Penelope is the lady in the apartment underneath me, she owns a plethora of sly, slinky, and infuriating cPublishats. I keep a list of cats that will meet their demise with their last sight being my bright smile. I went and got a camera and took a picture of the ash tray gray cat and added it to the list.
Friday, March 2, 2007
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Character
Agrii Avala
age: 22
Agrii's girlfriend of 9 months, Alice, is away on a business trip. This is the first time he is by himself in his life. With her absence he feels he has no emotional drive to do anything. Four days after she left her cat dies. Agrii goes out to the park to bury it and while digging finds a book. This obfuscating book points out strange connections between life as we know it and the imaginary.
age: 22
Agrii's girlfriend of 9 months, Alice, is away on a business trip. This is the first time he is by himself in his life. With her absence he feels he has no emotional drive to do anything. Four days after she left her cat dies. Agrii goes out to the park to bury it and while digging finds a book. This obfuscating book points out strange connections between life as we know it and the imaginary.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Antigone The Feminazi, And How Thumper Tastes to Men and Women
The difference between man and women traces back to our instinctual thoughts and is also somewhat derived from our physical make-up.
The instinctual behavior of male animals is to compete, not only for mates but also for food. Competition in males i think comes from the structure of their bodies (broad shoulders, larger frames, and strength. Male to male dominance is established primarily of toughness. This is where i believe the idea that men supersede women comes from (not my belief). Dominance=strength.
Women for one main reason differ from males. The reason jumps from the womb. The ability of childbirth is an experience that creates a unique make up of the mind. The fact that life can live within and come from you creates and influence over your every thought. Women, more often than men, feel greater care during certain situations. For example, when a man is hunting and kills a rabbit, its food; to a woman its Thumper from Bambi, she'd rather not eat .
The instinctual behavior of male animals is to compete, not only for mates but also for food. Competition in males i think comes from the structure of their bodies (broad shoulders, larger frames, and strength. Male to male dominance is established primarily of toughness. This is where i believe the idea that men supersede women comes from (not my belief). Dominance=strength.
Women for one main reason differ from males. The reason jumps from the womb. The ability of childbirth is an experience that creates a unique make up of the mind. The fact that life can live within and come from you creates and influence over your every thought. Women, more often than men, feel greater care during certain situations. For example, when a man is hunting and kills a rabbit, its food; to a woman its Thumper from Bambi, she'd rather not eat .
Monday, January 22, 2007
Got to admit its getting better
At some point in my life i will make a choice that will determine my fate. I won't know it. Yet at that one moment my life is changed. Free will exsists and lives until choice kills it and gives birth to fate. Fate is then split into death and destiny. This is when chance and luck plays in. From the moment I make my choice, I must trust my insinct to guide me to destiny without harm.
Fourth time is a charm.
Now on to Oedipus Rex and Catching Pokemon.
What is wrong with my post clock? Apparently, i posted this post 6 hours before i posted the last one.
Fourth time is a charm.
Now on to Oedipus Rex and Catching Pokemon.
What is wrong with my post clock? Apparently, i posted this post 6 hours before i posted the last one.
Emma has no free will or fate
Fate will happen regardless of your choices, this draws out the question, "then how does free will intertwine with fate?". Fate is the controlling force, in which free will dwells. Although, Oedipus, to me seems denied of free will. Free will was only an illusion of the fate he had. He did not know the prophecy saying he was going to kill his father, therefore fate acted out his life under the pseudonym of free will. It excites me to think, "Oedipus at one moment was faced with the choice of killing the traveller (King Laios) on the road. So does this not mean that he chose to kill him?" This proves that blind free will is the definition of fate, yet blind free will is free will isn't it.
Another point to consider is how free will can affect fate. Oedipus had already been found guilty of his deeds, and he has already fallen face first into his fate. There is still more to the story though. When he finds Jocasta hanging he blinds himself with her jewelery.
"he ripped the golden brooches
she wore as ornaments, raised them high,
and drove them deep into his eyeballs,"- Line 1514 in Ian Johnston's translation.
Was it not his own free will to destine his fate as a blind man. It is a weak point, but it does show how free will can determine fate.
This will say i completed this blog at 12:15 actual time is 8:13pm
Another point to consider is how free will can affect fate. Oedipus had already been found guilty of his deeds, and he has already fallen face first into his fate. There is still more to the story though. When he finds Jocasta hanging he blinds himself with her jewelery.
"he ripped the golden brooches
she wore as ornaments, raised them high,
and drove them deep into his eyeballs,"- Line 1514 in Ian Johnston's translation.
Was it not his own free will to destine his fate as a blind man. It is a weak point, but it does show how free will can determine fate.
This will say i completed this blog at 12:15 actual time is 8:13pm
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
MLK and why its in caps
The big deal is not just the man ( Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.), but the movements, ideas and obstacles he lead and overcame. His life was spent over the hope that one day, even if he sacrificed his time, blood, and spirit; that the equality of man would exisit in a peaceful utopia.
After reading his letter, I am digusted at my actions on MLK day. One could ask what i did, and i could not tell you, not because I followed in the path of Hunter S. THompson, or because I was too engrossed in work, but because i did nothing. It has taken me 17 and 1/2 years plus 3 periods of school, to think that maybe I should remember and honor days in which we have to reflect on the deeds of others. And boy do i sound mature.
on a diffrent note
The Atlanta Thrashers have just won 6-2 over the LA Kings
After reading his letter, I am digusted at my actions on MLK day. One could ask what i did, and i could not tell you, not because I followed in the path of Hunter S. THompson, or because I was too engrossed in work, but because i did nothing. It has taken me 17 and 1/2 years plus 3 periods of school, to think that maybe I should remember and honor days in which we have to reflect on the deeds of others. And boy do i sound mature.
on a diffrent note
The Atlanta Thrashers have just won 6-2 over the LA Kings
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Oedipus Rex
Part II
1. Type two passages (p. # and line) that think you best describe Oedipus and list in your journal or notebook.
962 #61-Poor children! You may be sure I know all that you longed for in your coming here. I know that you are deathly sick; and yet, sick as you are, not one is as sick as I.
961 #9- I, Oedipus who bear the famous name.
2. Write a description of the external conflict which is evoking pathos for Oedipus.
Oedipus and the people in the chamber are trying to find decipher a message from the oracle to save the city.
3. What effect does imagery have on the audience?
Imagery in this story helps show the dire strife to help the save the city from the plague.
4. find and list any motifs that are present.
Fate, arrogance, prophecies, God,
5. What is the Chorus (Strophe and the Antistrophe) talking about?
Strophe is singing about a prayer to save the city from doom, while the Antistrophe was wishing for a quick and sudden doom to end the suffering.
Part 3
1. Find two passages that explain Tiresias' role in the story and two passages that help to establish his internal conflict.
Page 968 line 68- A lord clairvoyant to the lord Apollo, as we all know, this is the skill Tiresias.
page 969 line 112- You are all ignorant. NO; i will never tell you what I know. Now it is my misery; then, it would be yours.
2. Discuss the external conflict.
The external conflict in this scene is to find the murderer to be avenged and save the city from torment.
3.Find at least two examples of Oedipus' hubris.
Page 970 Line 163- Wealth, power, craft or statesmanship! Knightly position admired.
Page 974 Line - You think you could accomplish all of this?
4. Find at least two examples of Oedipus
Page 971 Line 195- Listen to you you mock my blindness , do you? But I say that you, with both your eyes are blind.
Page 972 Line 233- The damned man, the murderer of Laios, that man is in Thebes.
Page 974 Line 23- You Murderer!
5. Find Examples of paradox.
Page 974 Line 30- Thrones can be won or bought: you could do neither.
6. What is the chorus talking about ?
Strophe is talking about having sympathy for Oedipus, while the Antistrophe is telling us how it might have been for the best that he is gone.
1. Type two passages (p. # and line) that think you best describe Oedipus and list in your journal or notebook.
962 #61-Poor children! You may be sure I know all that you longed for in your coming here. I know that you are deathly sick; and yet, sick as you are, not one is as sick as I.
961 #9- I, Oedipus who bear the famous name.
2. Write a description of the external conflict which is evoking pathos for Oedipus.
Oedipus and the people in the chamber are trying to find decipher a message from the oracle to save the city.
3. What effect does imagery have on the audience?
Imagery in this story helps show the dire strife to help the save the city from the plague.
4. find and list any motifs that are present.
Fate, arrogance, prophecies, God,
5. What is the Chorus (Strophe and the Antistrophe) talking about?
Strophe is singing about a prayer to save the city from doom, while the Antistrophe was wishing for a quick and sudden doom to end the suffering.
Part 3
1. Find two passages that explain Tiresias' role in the story and two passages that help to establish his internal conflict.
Page 968 line 68- A lord clairvoyant to the lord Apollo, as we all know, this is the skill Tiresias.
page 969 line 112- You are all ignorant. NO; i will never tell you what I know. Now it is my misery; then, it would be yours.
2. Discuss the external conflict.
The external conflict in this scene is to find the murderer to be avenged and save the city from torment.
3.Find at least two examples of Oedipus' hubris.
Page 970 Line 163- Wealth, power, craft or statesmanship! Knightly position admired.
Page 974 Line - You think you could accomplish all of this?
4. Find at least two examples of Oedipus
Page 971 Line 195- Listen to you you mock my blindness , do you? But I say that you, with both your eyes are blind.
Page 972 Line 233- The damned man, the murderer of Laios, that man is in Thebes.
Page 974 Line 23- You Murderer!
5. Find Examples of paradox.
Page 974 Line 30- Thrones can be won or bought: you could do neither.
6. What is the chorus talking about ?
Strophe is talking about having sympathy for Oedipus, while the Antistrophe is telling us how it might have been for the best that he is gone.
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