Maybe inspired by our dear bloggers The Walsh Family, Rip Van Winckle and Jack the Ripper who also brig us back to the values of classical literature, forgotten nowadays?
Here I am this morning reviewing one of my masters, one of the forbidden writers (according to Sara Palin) Aldous Huxley's Music at Night, 1931. A collection of essays, short enough for me to finish between pain and pain.
This is the essence:
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
I also came across one paragraph which I related to the aforesaid bloggers that I transcribe below:
"When the experiences recorded in a piece of literature correspond fairly closely with our own actual experiences, or with what I may call our potential experiences-experiences, that is to say, which we feel (as the result of a more or less explicit process of inference from known facts) that we might have had-we say, inaccurately no doubt: 'This piece of writing is true.' But this, of course, is not the whole story.
I wonder how much of their lives you share with your characters, and what is it that you share? I'd love to have an answer, and yet, you might not have it.
That very same paragraph shows the usage of "piece" in English.
*This piece of writing
*A piece of paper
*A piece of advice
*A piece of literature
*A piece of furniture
*...
Huxley was probably aware, as much as his own language has proven to be, of the "pieces" in life.
English, a language that allows pieces and almost forbids the "whole". What a language! I know it can drive crazy more than one. Easy in a way (no accents, easy verb structures) and difficult (no rules for pronunciation, different sentence structure...) I realize, almost at the end of my professional career, how it has affected my other languages; Catalan and Spanish, not to say French. Languages that I have used most of my life...
What a mess! The final mess which brings me to my last point, the one I want to convey, to share with you, for you to consider and help you develop the side of the bran which is less active by showing a clear example of a "right brained" person. The one who has written this very inarticulate piece of writing.
Here are my results:
Brain Lateralization Test Results |
| Right Brain (56%) The right hemisphere is the visual, figurative, artistic, and intuitive side of the brain. Left Brain (36%) The left hemisphere is the logical, articulate, assertive, and practical side of the brain |
Would you like to know your tendencies? Take the test, and let us know.
9 comments:
Hi teacher!
Good challenge! I will try to do this curious test. I think I have more left brain functions than right ones. We will see it.
However, you have corrected only two of my posts. I know like the rest of the class that you're so busy with all the blogs. Probably you haven’t realized it.
I will be happy if you have a look to my writings.
Finally, how are you? Are you feeling better? I hope so!
Hi teacher!!
Sorry, but I don't control this "blog world" yet!!!
I have written in my blog twice but I dont really know if you know when I write or not.
Please help me!!
I hope you get better soon!!!
Well, it seems that I'm more left brain (56%) than right (40%). But I don't know why the gender is asked.
By the way, I hope that we will meet again in class.
Hi Virginia,
In my case, I hadn’t a good connection to internet at home, but for me was enough. Now, I have changed it. I have internet at work but I can’t use it for things that aren’t about my job. At a cybercafé or similar, in general, you have to pay for enjoying this kind of services. Moreover at the beginning of this course, it was impossible to have access to internet at the E.O.I because the library was closed by working.
Then, I felt very frustrated and I needed help from friends to create this blog (a little difficult for me) and to do my homework about listening, etc.
Nowadays, I have better connection of internet at home and part of these problems has disappeared; only I need to learn to use this tool better.
I hope you have patience with me.
27 October 2008 10:22
Hi,
In my case it seems I am much more Right brain. Here are my results: Right brain 70% and Left brain 34%.
It is clear, I have to improve my left brain.
Hi teacher!
How are you?
I hope you to feel much better of illnes.
Sorry, I am so late starting whith my blog but I haven't time enough for it lately. I hope this situation will change.
I am a new user of blog and I don't know if I will use it properly.
My blog adress is:
http://luna-lunablog.blogspot.com
I hope see you soon.
Hey !
Great test!!!
I'll recommend it!
I don't know but my result says that I'm a left brain, but I disagree! I'm a mess and I love abstract things!
ohhhhh!!!!!! my results are 60% left brain-40% right brain, then I'm a practical person, I know. It's true. I have no imagination and this is the reason so little to write in my blog. But this situation have to change.
Nice test !!! I almost 50%/ 50% but my results was trend to a left... It´s ok I will try to do an effort to get the balance :)
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