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September 28, 2006
Propp's thirty one functions
Initial Situation Members of family introduced, Hero introduced1, Absentation One of the members of the family absents itself
2, Interdiction Interdiction addressed to hero. (Can be reversed.)
3, Violation Interdiction is violated.
4, Reconnaissance The villain makes attempt to get information
5, Delivery The villain gets information about the victem 6, Trickery The villain tries to deceive his victim
7, Complicity Victim is deceived
8, Villainy Villain causes harm to a member of a family
8a, Lack Members of family lacks something, desires something.
9, Mediation Misfortune made known. Hero dispatched.
10. Counteraction Hero (Seeker) agrees to counteraction.
11. Departure Hero leaves home.
12, 1st Donor Function Hero tested, receives magical agent or helper
13, Hero's Reaction Hero reacts to agent or donor
14 Receipt of agent Hero acquires use of magical agent.
15. Spatial change Hero led to object of search
16. Struggle Hero and villain join in direct combat.
17. Branding Hero is branded.
18. Victory Villain is defeated.
19, Liquidation Initial misfortune or lack is liquidated.
20, Return Hero returns.
21, Pursuit, Chase Hero is pursued
22, Rescue Hero rescued from pursued.
23. Unrecognized arrival Hero, unrecognized, arrives home or elsewhere.
24, Unfounded claims, False hero presents unfounded claims
25 Difficult task Difficult task is proposed to hero
26 Solution The task is resolved
27 Recognition The hero is recognized
28 Exposure The false hero and villain is exposed
29 Transfiguration The hero is given a new appearance.
30 Punishment The villain is punished.
31 Wedding The hero is married, ascends the throne.
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September 26, 2006
Fox Clinton Interview
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September 20, 2006
The Great Lawn - Sunset Time
After the hearing
Instead of swimming
Just took a walk
Along the Great Lawn.
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September 16, 2006
Farmer's Market: songs from another time
Old time
Deep time.
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September 14, 2006
The higher truth of fiction?
"Fiction calls the facts by their name and their reign collapses; fiction subverts everyday experiences and shows it to be mutilated and false. "
He went on:
"But art has this magic power only as the power of negation. It can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive
which refuse and refute the established order."
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September 11, 2006
A clear autumn day
"You should praise the mutilated world.
Remember the moments when we were together
In a white room and the curtain fluttered.
Return in thought of the concert where music flared.
You gathered acorns in the park in autumn
And leaves eddied over the earth’s scars....... "
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September 10, 2006
“你问我要去向何方......"
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September 08, 2006
Southern Lights
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September 07, 2006
Profit in Wiki Model?
"Even Jimmy Wales, who founded Wikipedia, is looking for ways to broaden — and profit from — the wiki concept. With financing from technology luminaries like Marc Andreessen and Mitchell Kapor, he and Angela Beesley started Wikia, which includes 1,500 separate wikis, from the Star Wars-focused Wookieepedia to user-generated pages on depression. Although Wikia is a for-profit company, it was founded with some of the communitarian idealism of Wikipedia, and its business plan calls for it to donate money to that foundation." - NYT
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停车
在扭弯的链条
肢解后的单车残骸旁
锁车而去
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September 05, 2006
L'artiste
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September 04, 2006
Monday: Little Farm
"Man is a polluted river, One must be a sea."
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The Near Future
Conrad Phillip Kottak explains hegemony in terms of ideologies that offer explanations about why the existing order is in everyone's interest. Many things are promised, but are said to take time and patience in order for them to happen.
One good way to keep the people away from oppression would be by telling people that they will eventually gain power in the near future.
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