From: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org (stillpt-digest) To: stillpt-digest@smoe.org Subject: stillpt-digest V3 #9 Reply-To: stillpt@smoe.org Sender: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk stillpt-digest Wednesday, January 17 2001 Volume 03 : Number 009 Today's Subjects: ----------------- b/hushlecture ["Donald G. Keller" ] b/costume [meredith ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 11:45:43 -0500 (EST) From: "Donald G. Keller" Subject: b/hushlecture "So this is what it is. Talking about communication, talking about language. Not the same thing. [It's about the way a child can recognize and produce phonemes that don't occur in its native language.] It's about inspiration, not the idea but the moment before the idea, when it's total, when it blossoms in your mind and connects to everything[, before the coherent thought that gives it shape, that locks it in and cuts it off from the universal. When you can articulate it, it becomes smaller]. It's about thoughts and experiences that we don't have a word for." --Maggie Walsh, teaser to "Hush," from =The Watcher's Guide Volume 2=, p. 322. More trivia from my essay revision. This is the full text of Maggie Walsh's lecture at the beginning of the dream in "Hush," obviously quoted from the original script; the deletions from the final broadcast version are bracketed. (They may have filmed the entire speech: there are clear but non-obvious cuts at those junctures.) What I find interesting about the whole speech is that, although Maggie Walsh is clearly a Freudian (most obviously in her similar lecture at the beginning of "Beer Bad," talking about the id and the pleasure principle), this one is a very Jungian statement about the relation between the conscious and the unconscious, and the process of creativity (and also very clearly contra-Lacan with its idea that inspiration is non-verbal). Back to work... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 21:08:40 -0500 From: meredith Subject: b/costume Hi! Watching "No Place Like Home" again, a detail jumped out at me that I'd never noticed before: the design on Buffy's shirt. A horned skull?! What was *that* all about?? Any ideas? +==========================================================================+ | Meredith Tarr meth@smoe.org | | New Haven, CT USA http://www.smoe.org/~meth | +==========================================================================+ | "things are more beautiful when they're obscure" -- veda hille | | *** TRAJECTORY, the Veda Hille mailing list: *** | | *** http://www.smoe.org/meth/trajectory.html *** | +==========================================================================+ ------------------------------ End of stillpt-digest V3 #9 ***************************