Class Notes 11/7 plus a bit more

**films to rent if you desire:
-Alice Through the Looking Glass with Kate Beckinsale
-Dreamchild
~~QUIZ on Wednesday Nov. 12 bring your questions on Monday the 10th. Question ideas can come from your notes, the Tatar book, Alice in Wonderland, and Sunderland~~
**Paper ideas for those who are still looking
-history -Alice
-myth -Dorothy
-dreams -Lyra
-art*
-coincedence
~~Discussed Alice in Sunderland pages 184-186 about dreams/identity and the author addresses the reader directly~~
*Discussed Alice's Adventures in Wonderland specifically, the part where Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum tell Alice her tears may not be real (page197 in my Alice book) in relation to the Jean Cocteau's film Beauty and the Beast and how Beauty's tears turn into diamonds.

(not discussed in class, but a pertinent connection) There was a part in Through the Looking Glass that reminded me of Cocteau's film: At the very end of chapter one, "She [Alice] just kept the tips of her fingers on the hand-rail, and floated gently down without even touching the stairs with her feet; then she floated on through the hall..." (166). Just as Beauty floated down the hall in this magical scene:
Also quoted Alice's adventures in Wonderland, "Life, what is it but a dream?" page 272 in my book. Which reminded me of "row row row your boat etc."

People shared their insights about Lewis Carrol's Alice stories and Sunderland. Hopefully that will be on people's blogs because I failed to take adequate notes on this.

------------ One Liners from Dr. Sexson in class today -------------

• "transform terrors into art...which may be the only way to deal with terrors" (which is why we should read the Grimm fairy tales etc. to our children)
  
• "are you willing to dance?" (in reference to chapter X The Lobster Quadrille, "Will you, wo'n't you, will you, wo'n't you, will you join the dance?"


• "The end is where the adventure begins"