Wednesday, September 10

is for dwarf.










EXAM SCHEDULE/ points:

• September 19th- Displacement due
• October 13th- Quiz #1- 100 pts
• November 12th- Quiz #2- 100 pts
• Monday, December 15th @ 8 am- 50 pts
• blog- 150 pts
• presentation- 100 pts X 2
• attendance- 3 classes ok to miss
• TOTAL: 600 pts

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'Finnegan's Wake' ~ James Joyce- MSU top 100 books, ranked #6

"You cannot complain that this stuff is not written in English. It is not written at all. It is not to be read. It is to be looked at and listened to. His writing is not about something. It is that something itself." ~ Samuel Beckett on Finnegan's Wake

"Ah, but she was the queer old skeowsha anyhow, Anna Livia, trinkettoes! And sure he was the quare old buntz too, Dear Dirty Dumpling, foostherfather of fingalls and dotthergills. Gammer and gaffer we’re all their gangsters. Hadn’t he seven dams to wive him? And every dam had her seven crutches. And every crutch had its seven hues. And each hue had a differing cry. Sudds for me and supper for you and the doctor’s bill for Joe John." ~ Joyce from FW

Nursery Rhymes:

• 'The house that Jack built...'
• 'With rings on her fingers, and bells on her toes...'
• 'Hey Diddle, Diddle, that cat and the fiddle...

dithyrambic

children's lit is didactic: pedagogical, it wants to teach us something, and has a moral

Charles Perrault: added a moral, while others thought the story was the moral

'Prank-Quean' "And the prank-quean nipped a paly one and lit up again and redcocks flew flack— ering from the hillcombs. And she made her witter before the wicked, saying: Mark the Twy, why do I am alook alike two poss of porterpease? And: Shut! says the wicked, handwording her madesty. So her madesty ‘a forethought’ set down a jiminy and took up a jiminy and all the lilipath ways to Woeman’s Land she rain, rain, rain. And Jarl von Hoother bleethered atter her with a loud finegale: Stop domb stop come back with my earring stop. But the prankquean swaradid: Am liking it. And there was a wild old grannewwail that laurency night of starshootings somewhere in Erio. And the prankquean went for her forty years’ walk in Turnlemeem and she punched the curses of cromcruwell with the nail of a top into the jiminy and she had her four larksical monitrix to touch him his tears and she provorted him to the onecertain allsecure and he became a tristian." ~Finnegan's Wake

Barney Miller

'An event in 1946' short story based upon 'The Ugly Duckling'

'Little Red Riding Hood'

'The Princess and the tin box' by James Thurber

Fractured and twisted Fairy tales: fun site



Adults like the twists, kids like the reality

THE WOLF:

thriller video

little red riding hood song

Humbert Humbert











Michael J. Fox from Teen Wolf