CHAPTER BY WALTER ONG, SJFROM “ORALITY AND LITERACY: THE TECHNOLOGIZING OF THE WORLD”

Writing Restructures Consciousness

Memory and Wisdom

Telephone

How much do you recall from the message?

Why is this important?Are you more or less wise

than people of the past?

List

Dog Seven 45Lightning 78WrongBlue Carroll HallTerror

Method of Loci

“Method of lociTo use the method of loci bring to mind a familiar building, such as

your house. Take a moment to conduct a mental walk through the rooms in your house. Pay particular attention to the details ,

noticing any imperfections, like scratches: anything that makes your mental images more vivid. Make sure you can move easily

from one room to another.Along your route create a list of "loci" :i.e. well defined parts of the

room that you can use later to memorize things. A locus can be a door, a bed, an oven, etc. Be sure that you can easily go from

locus to locus as you visit the house.Now, when you are faced with a list of words or ideas to be

memorized, you must form visual images for each of the words and place them, in order, on the loci in your route. To recall the

words or ideas now you take a mental walk throughout your house, asking yourself , "What is on the living-room door? What's

on the sleeping room bed. What's in the oven?" And so on.Associating the words or ideas to remember with the loci, you

should create surprising images. More striking is the created image, more easily you will remember the thing.”

From http://www.ba.infn.it/~zito/loci.html

Natural/Not Natural

Clarity and Analysis

The Clarity of Analysis

That patient merit of the unworthy takes,When he himself might his quietus makeWith a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,To grunt and sweat under a weary life,But that the dread of something after death,The undiscover'd country from whose bournNo traveller returns, puzzles the willAnd makes us rather bear those ills we haveThan fly to others that we know not of?Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;And thus the native hue of resolutionIs sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,And enterprises of great pith and momentWith this regard their currents turn awry,And lose the name of action.--Soft you now!The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisonsBe all my sins remember'd.

To be, or not to be: that is the question:Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;No more; and by a sleep to say we endThe heart-ache and the thousand natural shocksThat flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummationDevoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;For in that sleep of death what dreams may comeWhen we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause: there's the respectThat makes calamity of so long life;For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns

Tone

To be, or not to be: that is the question:Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;No more; and by a sleep to say we endThe heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks…

Or….

Writing and the Plot of History

Who is your favorite character from history?How is their story retold?Who retells a story?How does that change a character?How do you narratize your own story?Who is a character from your families past?How would a written account change the

past?

Speech or Writing

Example: Prompt: What is your favorite breakfast cereal and

why?

Deformity of Text

Goldilocks

Make a list of all the things in Goldilocks. What does this tell us about the meaning of the

myth…?Make a list of all the events of

your day. Does it accurately tell your story?

Paradox of Technology

Sound

Music and Words

Experience 1Experience 2

Sound to Thing

Mad

MadMadMadMAD

Flexible Time