"I love sculpture, the art of breaking space. Writing, the quarry."
page 43
This quote comes in one of his June Journals. In this June Journal he writes about how Chicano artists pull images out of themselves and show them to people in any type of medium. In this quote the auther is saying that he beleives that writing is the base of all art. He says writing is the quarry out of which the stone of which all art is made, is extracted."
"Shall we huddle ands moke and shake hands and grin and then publish some sweaty-assed two-bit newsletter on this?"
page 50
This quote comes in yet another June Journal. In this Journal he is talking about how authors need to use writing to tackle big questions. At the end of the entry in a separate small paragraph this quote comes. The author is making fun of writers who conform to one style of writing. This style is very corperate because he revers to "shaking hands' and "a newsletter" adding these words make the writing sound like a business. This is stupid to him because he beleives writing should be used as expression, and expression should not be conformed like a business.
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Friday, May 11, 2007
Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler. 1-29
"I worry about comedians who call me to back up their old Communisms"
page 26
This quote comes in the section in which he begins every sentence with I worry about. This is an example of the odd language in the book. It fits with the theme because he is saying he is worried about many things. I also picked this quote because Paul and I did a project on Communism earlier in the year.
"I see you looking at yourself put letters on paper' you said. All my illusions of being a poet shrank."
This quote comes as the author is discussing his relationship with an apparent musician living upstairs. This is section is only a two paragraph of the goings on in an appartment building. The musician upstairs tells the author his works are only letters on paper. The author feels lessened by this and no longer fancies himself as a poet.
page 26
This quote comes in the section in which he begins every sentence with I worry about. This is an example of the odd language in the book. It fits with the theme because he is saying he is worried about many things. I also picked this quote because Paul and I did a project on Communism earlier in the year.
"I see you looking at yourself put letters on paper' you said. All my illusions of being a poet shrank."
This quote comes as the author is discussing his relationship with an apparent musician living upstairs. This is section is only a two paragraph of the goings on in an appartment building. The musician upstairs tells the author his works are only letters on paper. The author feels lessened by this and no longer fancies himself as a poet.
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
interview so far
Ben Zappin
also first 5 questions into Adam Lerner
1. How did you first begin your practice involving herbal medicine? It all started out with a pan of nettle lasagna. That
is a girlfriend of mine made the pie without steaming them first. I suppose really my ‘practice’ involves much more than the
clinical aspect. It involves ecology, knowing where plant medicines come from, their habitat and or cultivation practices, how to
harvest and prepare them for optimal clinical use, and how to combine them with other plants. How I began my clinical practice was
by helping people around me, treating minor maladies with plant medicines. The great things about this is you can start today
with very simple things, you just have to know your limits. It is counter culture in that you can be an herbalist without
subscribing to a medical hierarchy. That is not to say that developing advanced skills as a western medical practitioner is a bad
thing, it is just a different skill set with a different cultural context. You can also be a physician that has a high level of
knowledge about the Western medical body and apply herbal medicine in a sophisticated way. I began my legal practice as a primary
health care practitioner when I passed California’s licensing exam for the practice of Acupuncture, a profession which includes
herbalism as part of the training.
2. What drew you to this practice? I had watch half my immediate family die of either cancer or cardiovascular disease at a young
age in the hands of advanced and expensive medical care. These are both diseases that have substantial origins in lifestyle and
environmental causative factors. Thus I wanted to explore something to serve people intervene before they had an advanced illness
and something to complement where conventional therapies lack what it takes to effectively treat or cure an illness.
3. Do you find herbal medication in some instances more effective than
more traditional medication. The first question for you is which is traditional? Most herbal medicines I use have been used in
China for thousands of years or by native people of the Americas as well as Europeans, Africans, etc. Many are certainly more
effective than pharmaceutical remedies, less side effects too! Of course much of the work I do is getting people to change their
lifestyle to make more healthy choices so they don’t get sick in the first place. There are many places where Western
pharmaceuticals are essential for providing life that I acknowledge and value as well.
4. Have you ever considered practicing herbal medication in a hospital or
even practicing in a hospital using pharmaceuticals? I would be very pleased to use herbal medicine in a hospital setting. This
is an uphill climb due to the politics and beliefs of the people running hospitals. I believe it would save money and accelerate
the healing of many people taking up hospital space to incorporate herbal medicine into this model. I’ve trained a bit in Chinese
hospitals where this is actually the case and it is really remarkable. I would love to train to use pharmaceuticals in a hospital
and really get a chance to find out where the limits of either medicine are.
5. In terms of the actual visit, how is visiting someone trained in herbal
medicine and visiting a doctor different. It really depends on who the herbalist is. There are some herbalists who will provide
herbs based on western diagnostics. I use a combination of Western diagnostics and information about herbs based on research in
combination with a traditional energetic model of the body and how herbs relate to that. I recommend you read a little about how
Traditional Chinese Medicine to get a sense of how the Anatomy, Physiology, Pathophysiology etc. are different and not just the
treatment. It is pretty sophisticated. I suppose the most significant thing most herbalists offer patients is more time to
listen to what is going on. Many Western docs rely on lab test to make decisions, that is quantifiable information. We
herbalists override Descartes (see Descartes Error) and look at mind, body, spirit, and take time to integrate the three in
diagnosis and treatment. Again, that is a bit of a generalization.
1. So along with patients who come in with specific illnesses, do you get many people looking for recommendations for herbs to use daily.
2. What is the most common herb you recommend for daily use and why?
3. What age, economic standing and ethnicity of people do you most often treat?
4. What is your opinion on insurance companies covering herbal treatment? Do some companies do so?
5. Would you anticipate a swing back towards the ancient form of medication using herbs? If so what would trigger such a change?
also first 5 questions into Adam Lerner
1. How did you first begin your practice involving herbal medicine? It all started out with a pan of nettle lasagna. That
is a girlfriend of mine made the pie without steaming them first. I suppose really my ‘practice’ involves much more than the
clinical aspect. It involves ecology, knowing where plant medicines come from, their habitat and or cultivation practices, how to
harvest and prepare them for optimal clinical use, and how to combine them with other plants. How I began my clinical practice was
by helping people around me, treating minor maladies with plant medicines. The great things about this is you can start today
with very simple things, you just have to know your limits. It is counter culture in that you can be an herbalist without
subscribing to a medical hierarchy. That is not to say that developing advanced skills as a western medical practitioner is a bad
thing, it is just a different skill set with a different cultural context. You can also be a physician that has a high level of
knowledge about the Western medical body and apply herbal medicine in a sophisticated way. I began my legal practice as a primary
health care practitioner when I passed California’s licensing exam for the practice of Acupuncture, a profession which includes
herbalism as part of the training.
2. What drew you to this practice? I had watch half my immediate family die of either cancer or cardiovascular disease at a young
age in the hands of advanced and expensive medical care. These are both diseases that have substantial origins in lifestyle and
environmental causative factors. Thus I wanted to explore something to serve people intervene before they had an advanced illness
and something to complement where conventional therapies lack what it takes to effectively treat or cure an illness.
3. Do you find herbal medication in some instances more effective than
more traditional medication. The first question for you is which is traditional? Most herbal medicines I use have been used in
China for thousands of years or by native people of the Americas as well as Europeans, Africans, etc. Many are certainly more
effective than pharmaceutical remedies, less side effects too! Of course much of the work I do is getting people to change their
lifestyle to make more healthy choices so they don’t get sick in the first place. There are many places where Western
pharmaceuticals are essential for providing life that I acknowledge and value as well.
4. Have you ever considered practicing herbal medication in a hospital or
even practicing in a hospital using pharmaceuticals? I would be very pleased to use herbal medicine in a hospital setting. This
is an uphill climb due to the politics and beliefs of the people running hospitals. I believe it would save money and accelerate
the healing of many people taking up hospital space to incorporate herbal medicine into this model. I’ve trained a bit in Chinese
hospitals where this is actually the case and it is really remarkable. I would love to train to use pharmaceuticals in a hospital
and really get a chance to find out where the limits of either medicine are.
5. In terms of the actual visit, how is visiting someone trained in herbal
medicine and visiting a doctor different. It really depends on who the herbalist is. There are some herbalists who will provide
herbs based on western diagnostics. I use a combination of Western diagnostics and information about herbs based on research in
combination with a traditional energetic model of the body and how herbs relate to that. I recommend you read a little about how
Traditional Chinese Medicine to get a sense of how the Anatomy, Physiology, Pathophysiology etc. are different and not just the
treatment. It is pretty sophisticated. I suppose the most significant thing most herbalists offer patients is more time to
listen to what is going on. Many Western docs rely on lab test to make decisions, that is quantifiable information. We
herbalists override Descartes (see Descartes Error) and look at mind, body, spirit, and take time to integrate the three in
diagnosis and treatment. Again, that is a bit of a generalization.
1. So along with patients who come in with specific illnesses, do you get many people looking for recommendations for herbs to use daily.
2. What is the most common herb you recommend for daily use and why?
3. What age, economic standing and ethnicity of people do you most often treat?
4. What is your opinion on insurance companies covering herbal treatment? Do some companies do so?
5. Would you anticipate a swing back towards the ancient form of medication using herbs? If so what would trigger such a change?
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
paper topic #2
Books comparing: Huck Finn and the Dharma Bums
The character's rebelious nature and how the Dharma Bums is more useful to history.
The character's rebelious nature and how the Dharma Bums is more useful to history.
Monday, May 7, 2007
Sandra Cisneros
"A real house. One I could point to."
page 748
This quote comes in The House on Mango Street when the little girl is talking to a nun. The nun asks her where she lived and is suprised to learn the little girl lives in a dilapidated appartment. The girl feels ashamed by this and says that she desires to have a nice house that she should show people. These desires are influenced by her want for a better family life more like the lives she sees on television.
"Except he won't let her talk on the telephone. And he doesn't let her look out the window"
page 749
This quote comes from the story Linoleum Roses. In this story it says that Sally got married in eighth grade which is very bazar. It almost appeared that she was kidnapped because in the quote she descibes how she could not talk on the phone or look out the window. Also, she was isolated from her friends. However, this was a happier life than her life with her abusive father.
page 748
This quote comes in The House on Mango Street when the little girl is talking to a nun. The nun asks her where she lived and is suprised to learn the little girl lives in a dilapidated appartment. The girl feels ashamed by this and says that she desires to have a nice house that she should show people. These desires are influenced by her want for a better family life more like the lives she sees on television.
"Except he won't let her talk on the telephone. And he doesn't let her look out the window"
page 749
This quote comes from the story Linoleum Roses. In this story it says that Sally got married in eighth grade which is very bazar. It almost appeared that she was kidnapped because in the quote she descibes how she could not talk on the phone or look out the window. Also, she was isolated from her friends. However, this was a happier life than her life with her abusive father.
Sunday, May 6, 2007
Seeing by Annie Dillard #2
"seeing is of course very much a matter of verbalization. Unless I call my atention to what passes before my eyes, I simply won't see it."
page 704
In this quote, the author discusses the matter of seeing. She says that the natural act of looking at something, does not mean you can see it. Seeing something is really when someone uses everything they know and relates it to what they are looking at. In this way, someone can actually see nature instead of just looking at it. This quote represents a large theme in the story.
"One patient called lemonade 'square' because it pricked on his tongue as a square shape pricked on the touch of his hands"
page 700
In this quote, Dillard is discussing a book she read written by a doctor who works with patients who have been blinded by cataracts. Dillard is extremely affected by this book because she discusses it for a few pages. At the end of the section, she says that her own vision was affected by what the author of the book wrote for weeks. In this particular quote, the blind person is discribing lemonade as square because it is sour and pricks his taste buds like a corner would prick his hand. This could be because he has no vision and cannot relate a square in its context and beleives that tasting is just like touching.
page 704
In this quote, the author discusses the matter of seeing. She says that the natural act of looking at something, does not mean you can see it. Seeing something is really when someone uses everything they know and relates it to what they are looking at. In this way, someone can actually see nature instead of just looking at it. This quote represents a large theme in the story.
"One patient called lemonade 'square' because it pricked on his tongue as a square shape pricked on the touch of his hands"
page 700
In this quote, Dillard is discussing a book she read written by a doctor who works with patients who have been blinded by cataracts. Dillard is extremely affected by this book because she discusses it for a few pages. At the end of the section, she says that her own vision was affected by what the author of the book wrote for weeks. In this particular quote, the blind person is discribing lemonade as square because it is sour and pricks his taste buds like a corner would prick his hand. This could be because he has no vision and cannot relate a square in its context and beleives that tasting is just like touching.
Friday, May 4, 2007
Seeing by Annie Dillard
"After thousands of years we're still strangers to darkness, fearful aliens in an enemy camp with out arms crossed over our chests"
page 697
This quote comes as she is talking about when she went to Tinker Creek for a night. She was sitting on a log and thought how many people are scared and unaccustomed to the dark. Dillard uses the night to go into a kind of meditated state. It could be said she is comparing humans unaccustomness to darkness to their distance from nature.
"try to gag the commentator, to hush the noise ofuseless interior babble that keeps me from seeing just as surely as a newspaper dangled before my eyes"
page 705
This quote comes as he is talking about how she watches a baseball game in silence in an empty stadium. If she could, she would block out all the noise and all her thought. This way she could see things exactly how her natural eyes would, uninfluenced by anything. She attempts to clear her mind and see clearly by years of study and meditation. This quote hints at her lifestyle.
page 697
This quote comes as she is talking about when she went to Tinker Creek for a night. She was sitting on a log and thought how many people are scared and unaccustomed to the dark. Dillard uses the night to go into a kind of meditated state. It could be said she is comparing humans unaccustomness to darkness to their distance from nature.
"try to gag the commentator, to hush the noise ofuseless interior babble that keeps me from seeing just as surely as a newspaper dangled before my eyes"
page 705
This quote comes as he is talking about how she watches a baseball game in silence in an empty stadium. If she could, she would block out all the noise and all her thought. This way she could see things exactly how her natural eyes would, uninfluenced by anything. She attempts to clear her mind and see clearly by years of study and meditation. This quote hints at her lifestyle.
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