Sting Interrupts Class-Notes 10/31

3 things that have to be left to find the Bear: rifle, compass, watch
They are all metalic, mechanical. You need to lose trappings of society to find Bear (nature?)
epiphany with the bear (as opposed to a burning bush)-divinity in nature (transcendentalism??)

Faulkner gets you to epiphany by using incantation=not describing the experience, but recreating the experience

A change of style is a change of subject-Wallace Stevens

Ellison is channeling Shakespeare's Julius Cesear who is channeling Book of Judges

imagination has 2 forms: creative and decreative
Even the absence of imagination has to be imagined

Music
Peyter-All art aspires to the level of music
Lyrics to don't stand so close to me by the police http://www.lyricsfreak.com/s/sting+&+police/dont+stand+so+close+to+me_20132359.html

jazz improvisation is a delicate balance b/w individual and the group