We have all been given a very extra-curricular assingment: to be in Caspar Wyoming on August 21 2017 to witness the total solar eclipse of the sun, and see how are experience goes along with Annie Dillard's. I we haven't read her essay on the eclipse(which I shamefully have not yet), then we are to, and blog about it for Friday. We are also to read Helena of the Ten Thousand Lakes' blog and do her better one. I somehow doubt that this can be accomplished by me, but we shall see.

We also discussed the notion of recollection(ie. memory)and its importance. In Tintern Abbey for instance, shows that it isn't experiance but re-visiting experience that ultimately matters. This is something that Proust also conveys(although not with the comparative brevity of Wordsworth, himself fond of words), in a kind of secular mysticism. And both In Search of Lost Time and Tintern Abbey suggest that the Aesthetic Hero must be an awakener of recollection, in others as well as in himself/herself. This not an easy feat, but then this is why there are lamentably few Aesthetic Heroes.