Day 5 Winner of Quarto’s 2022 Thunderdome Flash Fiction Contest. View the prompt here.
2/5/2022 (first day of last semester!)
Philosophy <3
Audre Lorde Notes
-Audre Lorde: black lesbian poet (like me! Ty Mr. Wurst :))
On “Transformation of Silence...”
-Addressed to feminist conference-James
● Note: didn’t make a joke about feminism. Maybe he’s not a total dick (maybe)
-Awareness of death
-Theme: silence will not save us from inevitable end, so we should be vocal– Leila :)
● Try to always remember Leila’s campy glasses
● Currently aware of the inevitable end of my time here. What silences does this free me to break?
-Must seek out the words of those not like us
● Wurst: like our class
● Note to self: in end-of-year thank you note tell Wurst this class was the first time I really felt free to break silence.
!!: at home put sticky note on notebook that says “TAKE ME TO COLLEGE!”
On “Poetry is Not a Luxury”:
-”I think therefore I am” vs. “I feel therefore I can be free”
Megan: I saw that line and thought, “OMG, I know that quote!”
Wurst: I know! We spent a week praising Descartes, now it’s time to start shitting on him!
^submit to MHS overheard
-Can these two notions coexist?-Leila
-Summary: having ideas shows we exist, like Descartes says, but only our feelings about them are original (James disagreement). (e.g.: thinking about graduation is not new, but how I deal with leaving these people could be). New feelings are the reason for new actions (connect to Sartre?)
^got so involved in conversation; couldn’t keep up notes. Hands going up everywhere. Realized I was more scared of not being part of this moment than I was of forgetting, so it’s your job to remember how it felt
Essay idea: Only new feelings; argue they can’t reoccur (so we must preserve them through poetry)