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Lol. He got a crappy but cheap cellphone for $20, so now he sends me SMS randomly and stuff. Kinda good because for some reason GTalk won’t let him send me messages to my phone.

His voice sounds somewhat different on the phone, i mean compared to Voice chat. It’s pretty cool…. It makes me giggly and shy but at the same time fills me with even more longing and wonder. How does he really sound like? I want to hear his voice for real. I want to be with him. I want to hear his voice when he’s right in front of me.

That aside, i met this cute little girl we call crystal. >_< she’s so wonderful and cute… gaahh so cute. I feel like melting whenever i think of her cuteness. lol. i hope I could meet her for real one day.

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Hehe… I’ve been lazy to blog lately. Ever since my exam last week… lol, i’ve been feeling so exchausted.

I failed that exam. I originally only got 32 points out of 100. Then I kept having some of my answers reconsidered until i got 40 points. XD The passing for that subject is 70 T___T … but then… a third of the class got scores lower than mine. a half around my score … and less than a fourth passed. During the exam, someone hyperventilated then got asthma and was rushed to the hospital …. she got a higher score than me though. lol… but yeah, it was that hard. but when we got the results … some of the answers were ridiculously easy… Some, i thought would be the answer but thought that it’s too easy to be the answer so I wrote down something else… >___< AARGH!!!

Last Thursday, I watched the UP Concert Chorus perform. I really like choral groups. They're so amazing! How could a group of people singing together sing in complete harmony? It's so beautiful to listen to. Today it's going to be the UP Madrigal Singers. I watched them once at CCP... the ticket was 600 php... the most i've ever spent for entertainment!!! I mean.. The most expensive I bought was my mp3 player, and then my domain and webhosting... and then a pair of rubber shoes. lol. I'm going to watch the Madz tonight.. for FREE! I love free stuff. x_x

When I got home last Friday, there was this big box on my top bunk. Pop said it wasn't his. I asked Eelai and Iks and they said it was mine... Flowers, they said, but iks said he couldn't guarantee that it's still fresh because it arrived 6 hours ago .. (when I was at school) ... Then I got excited and ran back to my room and cut open the ties on the box... FLOWERS!! Pretty flowers. Eelai said "There's a card inside!" and started reaching for it but I got it first... ... But then It was from someone else... not from Matt... :( I felt uncomfortable.... ~_~ I told the guy what I thought about it and .. well.. he wasn't persistent so it was all good. He's a good friend and I want to keep him as a friend. :D The flowers were pretty though. I'll post the pictures when I remember to. I kind of felt annoyed at him because he sort of ruined the moment... It was my first time to receive flowers and i kinda hoped it was from matt. oh well. It's just flowers. T_T I felt sad when the roses wilted though.

Saturday Sunday....I kinda don't remember what happened. I think I slept a lot. Matt on gtalk .. lol. we were talking and he let me sleep. hehe... was cool.

Monday.. let's see.... uhh.. nothing happened. XD

Tuesday!!!! I WENT TO THE SCHOOL FAIR! it's a week-long affair... concerts every night from Monday to Saturday, lasting until 3-5 am. :D I watched the Tuesday concert because my HS Classmate and friend's band was gonna play. They played second so there weren't a lot of people yet. Which was just as well, since the sounds went out crappy. I'm not saying they were horrible musicians, but the sound system didn't ... dunno... it wasn't set up properly. Their sounds were trying to overpower each other. I think that's why they get unknown bands to play at first, so they could test run the system. >__< which is unfair. Oh well. I had a great time. I saw Maricar and she was like a kid who's at the carnival for the first time. It was her second time though, her first was Monday night. LOL. she's in 6th year and only attended the fair now. Weirdo. I love her though. I hugged her a lot <3 she's schmexy. I met with Loraine and Maki and Yo later on and had more fun... We left the campus past 2am... hard to get a taxi. there was 5 of us and the taxi driver we got wanted us to pay an exorbitant price. :< oh well.

I talked with Matt when I got home. :D too bad he was sick. Since i was so tired, he let me sleep again. lol. he's always letting me sleep even when we're on voice chat. I hope he won't get mad or tired of me doing that. >_< <3<3<3 he's a darling. I love him so much. Wednesday, we just played Uno and slept about half the day. I had to go to my student's house that afternoon though... only to find out that she'd be home late and couldn't meet with me. >_< That little runt. I love her too though.

Hummmmmm...... I wish I could be with Matt. I want to Take are of him coz he's sick T___T I wish he could be here........

A~ah... nothing I can do about. And I guess, there's nothing he can do about either, not being able to come here ... yet?

Gaaahh... it's kinda fun having a lot of people to talk with, especially on special days like this. the holiday or special day seems to be longer because of the different timezones :D It's great.

Anywayyyyyyyyyyyy.... That's all for now. Maybe I should blog more often. There are a lot of thoughts that i write down on my notebook during class.. lol. I should write them here. Muahaha... hurrah to laziness. x_x

Oh yeah.. I've been watching NANA (Anime) lately too... :D it's cool. Anime about music. It's like Beck but female version. it's on 30+ episodes now though >_< I normally avoid anime with more than 26 episodes…. the less the better. lol. argh.. I’m also watching HYD season 2. gaaahh… i shouldn’t try to fit all this in this post. lol. ja.

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INTRODUCTION

has different focuses or emphasis for every age.

Divisions of History of Critical Theory

• mimetic theories
  • imitation
  • verisimilitude (realisticness?/closeness to the truth/Truth)
• pragmatic theories
  • affective
  • audience
• expressive theories
  • author or artist
• objective theories
  • no author, only thework itself.
  • Death to the author! (Extreme)

Nature, Status, Function of arts

PLATO - Idealism

mimesis - imitation

• World of Being - Ideal World - World of Forms
• World of Becoming - Physical World, a shadowy reflection of the Ideal World
  • the Form is removed from the concept, the unchanging originals
  • Realities
    

Poetry/Arts

• draw us farther away from reality-> Unreliable source of truth
• thrice removed from reality (Form -> Idea->Words->Painting/Imagery)
• imitates an imitated imitation.
• engages the part of our psyche that is both illogical and irrational (Dionysiac) (and unstable)
  • Opposite is rational (Apollonian) - Good for our mind.
  • Induces us to partake in public displays of emotion (This is not needed by the future Philosopher Kings)
• a form of madness.
• above prose; higher form of writing
• must TEACH, not DELIGHT (didactic)

Poet

• Divinely insipired individual
• like rhapsodes (Song interpreter), do their art by possession. (Sanib)
• They don’t understand what they create
• the inspiration is passed down from Poet to Rhapsode to Audience. (Magnet and Rings Analogy)
• Plato recognizes that poets are gifted that’s why they must be banished.

ION is the Rhapsode that interprets Homer. He used the Socratic method.

Art is for the society (didactic)

ARISTOTLE - Realism and Importance of Plot

• does not believe that the world of appearances is merely an ephemeral copy of the changeless ideas
• change is a fundamental process of nature which is a creative force with a direction
• REALITY is a process by which a form manifests itself through the concrete and by which the concrete takes on meaning working in accordance with ordered principles

Art

• IMITATION or MIMESIS is basic in all arts
• Art is not life and life is not art.
• an escape TO life.
• must portray men better or worse because it is not real life.
• vicarious experience
• enhances life
• allows you to experience things without going through the pain.
• an artist just does not copy nature but produces a work of labor
  • An artist must say something significant about the human condition
  • An artist must say something new–a technical innovation. Must say it in a way which has never been used before.
• Art is NOT history. Integrity is more important.

A good work of art must have a beginning, a middle, and an end.

Before you break the rules, you must KNOW the rules. (Shakespeare is the greatest rulebreaker of all time.)

Epic poetry, tragedy, comedy, dithyrambic poetry, music etc (Different forms of art)

Differences which distinguish artistic imitation

• medium
• objects
• manner of imitation

Plot

• necessity
• Probability
• Inevitability

muthos (plot)
praxis (story)
episodic play - post hoc
Aristotelian play - propter hoc

reversal - peripeteia
recognition - anagnorisis

The best kinds of recognitions are accompanied by reversals.

Plot - both end and soul of tragedy

Deus ex machina is no good.

HORACE

• 2nd greatest next to Virgil
• Sponsored by Mesinas
• Wrote Ars Poetica for the Piso boys (Telephus and Peleus)
• an artist is a craftsman
• ut pictura poesis - the poem is like a picture
  

Advice

• emphasizes decorum–the rightness of each part to the whole.
• advises restraint.
• Poetry must both teach and delight.
• avoid purple patches (Ostentatious, extravagant words, flowery writing)
• a poem should not be just beautiful, it must also be affecting.

On Imitation

• imitate the classics and the classical writers because they have already achieved perfection. (mimesis praxeus)

On critiquing

• Don’t flatter your patrons.
• Quintilius
• 9 years.
• Get advice from a practicioner.

Make friends with poetry but don’t marry poetry.

LONGINUS

On the Sublime - Aristotelian Approach

• Why are there sublime works/people?
• Sublimity is the “echo of a great soul”
• Genius + art/skill = Sublimity
• Inspiration + talent/craftsmanship = Sublimity/success
• needs experience and time.
• What it is not:
  • bombast or bathos
  • inflated hyperbolic language
  • purple patches
  • not just being clever
  • tasteless tumidity
  • frigidity
  • Triviality of expression
• Pragmatic->relationship between the work and audience
• materialism and hedonism kills sublimity (which makes political slavery better than these two)
• inspiration is important
• SUBLIMITY is indefinable
• You must be BORN with it. If you don’t have it, there’s nothing to develop.
• art = craft/skill
• good fortune = talent
• good course = training
• simplicity = sublimity
• it is better to have 1 sublime work than a ton of perfect works.
• You can overlook the flaws of a sublime artist
• Lysias was compared to Plato
• Hyperides <sublimity< Demosthenes

PLOTINUS

hierarchy of emanations

The ONE = [Good -> Intellect -> All-Soul] -> Material Universe -> Matter
———–Reminiscent of the Holy Trinity

Certainty =/=> Beauty

Beauty -> what the artist subdues the material as art
the more beautiful something is, the closer it is to the One.

Artist -> Human being magnified

The image the artist sees = Genius

The subduing process = Skill

Body is impure

Plotinus looks INSIDE.  Aristotle looks INSIDE and UPWARD

St. AUGUSTINE

signs = used to signify something

Words are signs.

Enjoyment = God

Holy Trinity in One God -> God the Father, Son, Holy Spirit

God is incapable of being expressed, but we can express Him in words to signify Him.

Must work for Transcience from earth to Heaven.

Sin = Enjoyment in the wrong direction.

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