Journal entry, 2/9/2000, Dan Langton notes

Utile dulce. Learning should be useful and sweet. What came first, the big bang, or the big tear theory? The stars are older than the universe. Then there’s the theory of inevitability. It will never happen because it’s never happened before. it’s inevitable. On 2 July in 1776, women could vote. Then they couldn’t. Then 29 years later when women could finally vote again, it was defeated. What goes around comes around again. Did you know that we share 90% of our genes with primates? And we also share 60% of our genes with bananas. The theory of commonality, literature is an artificial language which deals with ordinary circumstances. metaphor in literature. Metaphor is for what ails you, Metaphor: to diagnose. Symbols go from material to immaterial. Writers see symbols as obscure defeats, connects to an image with an idea or conception. Our emotional investment in symbology. It’s chalk on a chalkboard. A mark. Symbols gain strength with associative value.

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