Joke to break the ice. The importance of being art.

Wednesday, May 02, 2007. How can we explain a musician like Neil Young, whose moment in the spot light has long since past, still being appreciated and respected by my generation, while many of his colleagues from that period go unrecognized? Why is it that ten years from now, English Professors will not be teaching A million little pieces as part of their curriculum, but the classics that have been taught for ages will remain in the curriculum? Where do we draw the line between trendy and timeless? .

Sunday, April 15, 2007. This is a sculpture of Cupid and Psyche by Antonio Canova. It is in the Louvre and was created between 1786 and 1793. He also did one of Daedalus and Icarus and of Theseus and the Minotaur. Monday, April 2, 2007. Brown which I have been asked to give you. In the bush that Moses saw burning but unconsumed we recognize the conservation of thy glorious virginity.

Tuesday, May 1, 2007. As I was finishing up my blog site for the semester, I perused over my older posts, notes, etc. Just as we gave Ovid life by reading his poem, we give each other life by reading the posts on our sites.

All that is past possesses our present. Monday, April 30, 2007. Taking a look back to the beginning. Well here we are at the end of the semester, it all happened so fast! Well now during the last week of classes i decided to look back through a chronicle to find the past. I hate to say that i came up empty handed. I felt quite discouraged from not being able to do what i had set out to accomplish. We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring.

Tuesday, May 1, 2007. This novel is the final reading for my Restoration of 18th century British Literature class, and one sentence in particular stuck out in its similarity to a story we discussed in class. Unfortunately the blog has to be finished for our dear senex to read and review, so I will be unable to note all the presentations, however I still plan to post the remaining presentations as they are given. On a final note, my apologies to those whose presentations are n.

Wednesday, May 2, 2007. They were both very well spoken too. Our class, as we continue our presentations, can serve a mini culture that demonstrates how much the classical literature affects our daily lives. We will have yet another concrete example of the past in the present. Tuesday, April 17, 2007. Friday, April 13, 2007. In just two short paragraphs he tells us so much about himself.