March 25, 2015 - 15:14
*7- "us that picks up the pieces"-- literally and figuratively; body pieces that remain after an explosion
*16- "The rocks down here, they don't expect nobody to love them"
*22-23: remember to look up what a dago boy is...
*27- "three tablespoons of sugar and turpentine"-- good for a chest cold... I'm thinking maybe for a miners cough?
*pg 50- upside down bucket= strike/kettlebottom... gesture that gives a signal, sets in motion a timeline of events--- important that the death of Natan, which we read through in the middle part, is the catalyst for this gesture
*58- remember to look up God's parable...
*60- "I am on the side of the trees" --- thinking ecologically... what if we eventually read exile and pride in this class?
*65- "I conclude that it is better to be curst by a husband like a farmer... then it is to be loved by a husband like Orpheus"
*69- Uses his grammer error/mispelling as wordplay in the phrases: "you're history/ your history"-- one suggesting that YOU will be history and the other suggesting that this history is yours, as in the possessive sense
*70- "Truth" vs "Fact"--- it is the fact that childbirth killed her but it is the truth that this was only possible because no one came to help, enabling her death... redefining realness...
*74- "...She just/ turned it over, trying to turn the bad luck"
*78- "What I know is wrote on the wall" --- Samson --- also something here about walls...
*79- we could look at how religion plays part in this book...