ENGL 395 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Defamiliarization, Mithraism
26 Mar 2016
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Shadow riding the carousel in the museum is a moment of transiion. When the story teller and the reader become partners sharing in the delight. Fantasy recovering experience of being like a child. Shadow asking wednesday to bring laura back to life. If we get habitualized to things it is as if life has never been. Wednesday gets very serious about the answer to this quesion. Speaks his answer almost like a chant or an incantaion. Hanging on the tree is connected to wednesday"s deep knowledge. A deeper connecion to nature: foreshadows the knowledge that shadow comes into when he hangs on the tree. That deep history that we do not have connecion with can be heard in the god"s voice and a. Ideas can die just like gods can die. Think of feminism: it is just an idea, it can die.
