Experiences entered by angusif

Fun Home
Experience: Released Emotion Brake
Narrative Technology: Opportunity to Observe + Pivot into Positive Emotion
Surreal moments (Bechdel's father was killed by a Sunshine bread delivery truck), Shocking moments (Bechdels' father striking his children), and an opportunity to find the source of Bechdel's father's abusive behavior in his repressed homosexuality, before concluding with a realization filled that releases positive emotions
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January 9, 2025
Alcestis
Experience: Released Emotion Brake
Narrative Technology: Opportunity to Observe + Pivot into Positive Emotion
Alcestis dies and the play opens with his funeral. Apollo arrives to bring Alcestic back, but death still carries Alcestis away. Then Hercules shows up and doesn't recognize that he's at a funeral and people are in mourning. This goes on for a bit until someone lets Hercules know that he's behaving inappropriately and he decides to save Alcestis and succeeds.
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January 9, 2025
The Metamorphosis
Experience: Relearning
Narrative Technology: Poetic Narrative
The Metamorphosis takes a familiar happening--a young man living at home with his family--and turns the young man into a giant bug....no explanation is given for the rearrangement of man to bug. Its purpose isn't to logically establish new laws of narrative; it's to surprise us into reconsidering the old. That old law, in the case of The Metamorphosis, is family love. In the past, we'd been taught by moral parables, sentimental novels, and other traditional tales that family love was selflessly generous. But when the insectoid young man of The Metamorphosis repulses his parents and retreats heartbroken into his room to die, we relearn that family love can be very conditional indeed.
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January 9, 2025
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Experience: Relearning
Narrative Technology: Poetic Language
"A river of waters diaphanous" "stones white and enormous, like prehistoric eggs"..."sparrow hands"..."the learned alchemists"..."the desperation of nails and screws"
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January 9, 2025
Labyrinths
Experience: Relearning
Narrative Technology: Poetic History
"'The House of Asterión,'" in which a man raves insanely that he cannot escape his house of doorless corridors...only to then reveal himself as the entirely sane Minotaur of Daedalus's labyrinth. 'Pierre Menard, author of Quixote,' in which a scholar immerses himself so thoroughly in Don Quixote that he becomes its author, rewriting it word for word. 'The Bibliotheca of Babel,' in which we enter a library filled with books that contain every possible arrangement of typewriter keystrokes, producing endless rooms of gibberish, but also the tantalizing prospect of a tome that reveals all the secrets of God'" (Fletcher 307).
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January 9, 2025