I took the picture with my phone, so it's crappy resolution, but hopefully it's clear that the figure in the lower right is a cat-in-a-hat. There's a whole line of cats in hats walking up the hill and into that contraption in the middle. And if the resolution were better, you'd be able to see that the contraption is spitting out equations on the piece of paper and has two lights - one labeled "alive" and one labeled "dead".Here's one of the more beautiful images I've seen this week:
It doesn't have any specific significance, but I thought it was extremely pretty, and since it came from a humanities lecture given by my conference leader it can stand in for things related to him and that class. I had my paper conference today, and he liked my paper. He said I made "intelligent use" of the editing feedback I got, and his main suggestion was to develop certain interesting ideas more. Today's lecture was also awesome. I think today's lecture is tied with the second one (the one about oral traditions) for my favorite. The guy talked about the nature of first-person perspective in Greek lyric poetry, and how it differs from what we expect from first-person perspective in modern poetry. His main thesis was that the first person in Greek lyric is for the benefit of the reader, or rather speaker, and that it is meant to represent not necessarily the perspective of the poet, but an identity for those who reiterate the lyric to "try on."
Like the octopus vase, I find Sappho's poetry very aesthetically compelling.
This weekend I'm going to get a new Hum paper topic and a Phil paper topic. I only get one week for the philosophy paper, but then again, I expect it to be more straightforward. It pretty much has to be on dualism or behaviorism - maybe identity theory - and I can discuss the hell out of those. I don't have to interpret nearly as hard.
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