Fifth Class

Oct. 26

Seth:

-specific strips at key moments

-examination of strip used on midterm

is this Seth at the time of the skating or Seth in retrospect of the occasion?

existentialism > finding some sort of direction or purpose in life

angst / joy > struggle

response to continuous situations with a plethora of choices

-woodstock and snoopy and relation of reading

-woodstock slashes in comparison to snoopy with characters in relation to the reader

bad faith

-putting a sense accomplishment in something that can't exist

-the never get to situation (peanuts)

-a guarantee in failure (goal oriented living is a doomed existence)

interest in the everyday

-exploring the everyday

slapstick / body humour

-the fall in the skating strip (schadenfrende > not you)

(jackass > obvious stupidity)

-abuse or mortify the body

-low humour = satanic

the ongoing issue of laughter. linked with evil, cruelty.

the universe taking back control from the illusion of reality

> fragility of sense. life

window display and dinosaur display > pity and interest

"bad" art

aspires to, but fails

Seth and Ruthie and the dissolution of the relationship

theodore sturgeon > beating to maintain the relationship of fragility

layers of pretense upon layers of pretense

understanding in relation to others

-projection

-othering (defining difference)

-seeing the world as an expression of internal feelings

pg 44-45

finding an understanding of self through an analysis of those around

1st person PoV > doubleness of internal/external > bidirectional

back and forth with connection and dissociation

identity via relation to others

romantic individualism

flâneur

wander

separate

judge

-the child that Seth observes and is told to stop

the world is more than a personal fantasy and projection

page 19 bottom right corner two pages and again same place and again two pages later

-relating through people who are silent

"I'm special and an individual"

"I'm exactly like everybody"

Stephen - Seth's brother (kind of happy/content)

-laid back

-childish.child like

-sloppy /lazy.relaxed

-stupid jokes

-annoys Seth

too like himself, too similar

-prison/cage/box

Seth's climbing into a box memory

cardboard box / related to mother's place

-trains = temporary suburb in motion

cells/frames of comics

-routine / predictability

-greenhouse

finding and paying attention to patterns in the narrative

the start of section three

-pages without text

slowing down and looking at the reason why this section of the story is important

dinosaurs

-old

-collected

-fascinating > children

-artificial > salvage > recovery

1970s movement of recovering women's literature

reinvigorate and return to promise women's literature

-"Diving into the Wreck"

-a poem that is a conceit

-constant return; pastness

-nostalgic

projection to flesh the beasts

guesswork to assembly

-fragility and obvious artifice

something that creates verisimilitude (the creation of reality in a simulation)

Boris and the steps of health in relationship to the narrative

the anchor of monumental buildings

eroded history with the intention to monumentalize

Seth is a champion of seeking to remember was is to be forgotten

enthusiasm for decay in architecture

The casualty of Seth (talk about next week)