Thursday, November 19

Today is Thursday of Week 13. Here is a link to Week 13 and also to Week 14 if you're working ahead, and if you didn't read the Monday announcements, take a look there for information about how the Thanksgiving break works in this class (whole week off!).

Class Procedures and Reminders

Storytelling. Week 13 is a storytelling week, which means that for many of you today is storytelling day... and for at least some of you this may be your last story for the semester: I hope you will feel inspired and have fun! (In Weeks 14 and 15, there's the Story Lab or the story option for both of those weeks coming up.)

Project Stack. If you turned in your project before 8PM on Sunday, you should have comments back from me now, and I'll keep working on the Sunday projects today. You can always check the stack to make sure I received your email.

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog stream. In the Indian Epics class people are choosing what they want to read, and there are some people reading contemporary books by writers in India who are working with epic themes, and here's a novel that Ann Marie is reading; you can find out more at her blog post: Ravana Leela.


Twitter stream. From the OUDaily, news about a Spring course that I can highly recommend: Nina Livesey is teaching a course on the Bible as literature!


Some of you may know Jeff Provine here at OU (the author of the OU ghosts book!)... he is into what are called "very short stories" which fit into a tweet; the one from today is a classic folktale: The Golem.


From a true Google expert at Twitter, Alice Keeler, news of this new Google experiment: a Google song-maker.


Here's something from Professor Cline at OU: very cool! Curse like a Roman.


And for a Twitter video, here's something beautiful from Liniers, one of my favorite cartoonists: you can watch one of his drawings coming to life in color...


Storybook. Some of you in Myth-Folklore have been reading nursery rhymes, so here's a nursery rhyme Storybook: Nursery Rhymes: What Really Happened.


100-Word Stories. In honor of Jami (see below), here is one of his stories: Jami and the Physician's Son.


To inspire your writing, a cartoon from another one of my favorite cartoonists, Dave Coverly, a.k.a. Speedbump.


Something soothing and beautiful from YouTube: 10 Hours of Relaxing Oceanscapes.


November 19: Jami. Today, November 19, marks the death of the great Persian poet, Jami, in the year 1492. One of Jami's greatest works was a novel-in-verse about Yusuf and Zulaikha, i.e. Joseph and Potiphar's wife, who goes by the name of Zulaikha in the Islamic tradition. You can read more about Jami in this Wikipedia article, which is also the source for this image from an illustrated manuscript of one of his mystical works, The Rose Garden:



Check out the Twitter stream for information and fun stuff during the day, or click here for past announcements.


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