Here's something good for you to do: let's bring out the life in you, using your pen and brush.
8/31 met tianhao and deyu for lunch. had them move my furniture. stayed over at mark's place
9/1 drove from boston to new york with elizabeth, met mike, asked mike to stay for the night, which he did
9/16 president's forum at the new school with mike, watched Jabberwocky with mike at my place. he looked great
9/17 first history and historiography class. i wanted professor dan streible's master narrative on film history, but he withheld it
Written on a postcard, our first assignment in the film history/historiography class.
The problem with "refashioning" the past in Lowenthal's word, or building "master narratives" in Staiger's, is two-fold: the act of looking at the past, and the act of writing about the past. Staiger's "correspondence" and "reflection" model forsake the fact that history is greater than the sum of its parts, though both allow us to examine the past. Additionally, with each new theory, the corpus expands. (Just like how the permutations of our expressions do not exhaust our consciousness.) A master narrative will be extremely narrow in scope, but depending on our needs we will work something out.
