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Parabolic Tale, with Invocation

The Excursion

Scherzando

Rhetoric and poetics now seem like my right and my left arms.

I’m right handed and  my interest in artful compositions is more prominent in my work thus far—so I’d say that for me: poetics is my right hand.

Rhetorics, now pluralized, undergirds poesis, as Burke argues—and Jared has already observed—they are inside of one another.

So, there is this mistake in the Rhetoric of Motives.  When Burke mentions the sacrifice of Issac by Abraham, he writes: “Isn’t the assurance that the angel stayed Issac’s (sic) hand as important a part of the story as Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice Issac? (252, emphasis mine).  So, here in the midst of discussing the sacrifice, I am going to lay out Burke for making a mistake.  Of course, he means Abraham, not Issac, in the first instance. 

So, I'm a one trick pony.  

I love this thought: that unique forms can transport us from here in the apparatus to elsewhere.  

Here is a draft of the first film, Parabolic Tale, with Invocation.  I've got the second one entirely shot, but not edited.  I think that my current goal is to have the first two films finished by the end of the class, and the third, Scherzando, finished by the Burke Conference.

The film doesn't have titles at the end, needs to fix the gaps in audio, and is cropped wrong based on a fluke with Adobe Premiere.  

Enjoy anyway!

Click the image to go to Vimeo to watch the draft.

So, first of all...  Burke writes that "nothing is more distinctly 'human' than a scientific laboratory in one sense ( for no other species but man is known ever to have make and used one)" (78).  But of course, anyone who has read Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy knows that mice have made one very big laboratory, Earth.

  Covino, William.  Magic, Rhetoric, and Literacy: An Eccentric History of the Composing Imagination. Albany, NY: State U of NY P, 1994. 189 pages. ISBN: 978-0791420836. $34.85, hardcover; $29.95, paperback.  

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  So, for the second week in a row, I'd like to connect Burke to what I taught today.