CHAPBOOKWRITER

CURRICULUM

First Quarter

Theoretical foundation: Phenomenology of Mind by Hegel. Old Testament King James edition.

Assignment One

Call of the Wild by Jack London

Collected Works of Dylan Thomas

White Fang by Jack London

Assignment Two

Macbeth by Shakespeare

Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare

Waiting for Godot

Assignment Three

The Black Cloud

Beowolf

Stranger in a Strange Land by Heinlein

Assignment four.

Anna Karinina

Collected works of Lawrence Ferlengetti

Collected Works of Wallace Stephans

Second Quarter

Theoretical design: Being and Time by Heidegger. New Testament, King James edition.

First Assignment

Scarlet Letter by Hawthorn

Maggie by Crane

Lolita by Nabakov

Second Assignment

Siddhartha by Hesse

Lost in the Funhouse by

Complete works of Edgar Allen Poe

Third Assignment

Gold Finger by Ian Fleming

Collected Short Stories of Sherlock Holmes

Iliad and Odyssey by Homer

Assignment Four

The Sorcerer and the Stone

The Hobit by Tokien

Collected Works of William Butler Yeats

Third Quarter

Theoretical frame work: Ideas by Husserl and Collected Works of Basho, Bucson and Issa edited by Haas

First Assignment

Four Quartets by Eliot

Collected Works of Emily Dickinson

Nausea by Sartre

Second Assignment

The Plague by Camus

The Wasteland by Eliot

Complete Works of Wm. Blake

Third Assignment

Notes from the Underground

Arabian Knights by Sherherazad

The Great Gatbsy by Fitzgerald

Fourth Assignment

Aesop’s Fables

Wauldon Pond by Emmerson

Dangling Man by Bellow

Fourth Quarter

Theoretical Foundation: Of Grammatology by Derrida and Selected Writings of Confuscius.

First Assignment

The Fixer by Malamud

Collected Works of Kenneth Patchen

Roots by Haley

Second Assignment

Don Quixote by Cervantes

1984 by Orwell

Lord of the Flies by Salinger

Third Assignment

Collected Works of Fredrico Garcia Lorca

The Idiot

The Yaki Way of Life by Carlos Casteneada

Fourth Assignment

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Travels with the Unknown God by Gardner

Alice in Wonderland

PROJECTS

1 Based on these three readings, how do they manifest the concept of

"If it doth not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, it ought not come at all." by Wordsworth?

2 What is the relationship between a true spirit and the archetype of the Noble Savage?

Give five examples from history.

3 Which force is with us: Che or the libido or something else? Why?

4 Who did wrong: Saul or the witch of Endor and why?

5 What role did a conspiracy have in the interpretation of the golden fleece as being Helen of Troy as a blonde? What actually was the golden fleece?

6 Job’s wife: good or bad? Why?

7 To the Egyptians was Moses a man of God, a wizard, or a Magi or something else?

8 In what ways does psychology illustrate the concept of "God is dead" by Nietsche?

9 Who first coined the term collective unconscious and what is its relation to the integrated collective?

10 Name a number of types of trances?

11 What is the relationship between the Biological Clock, the Celestial Clock and the Cosmic Clock?

12 What is linear time, vertical column of time, and a parabola of time and how do they relate to the trance and obsidian stone?

13 How are trancing and imaging related to psychological projection as well as to navigating through the other dimensions ?

14 How does one distinguish between the puppet and the puppet master and how does that relate to the transmigration of someone’s spirit?

15 What happened to Mount Olympus?

16 Based on the readings of this quarter do thought police and puppet masters serve a useful function in the domain of the Zeitgeist? Advocate your point of view.

17 Give five examples of eternal damnation and paradise.

18 In what ways does the wrath of The Unknown God demonstrate that the fear of Him is the beginning of wisdom?

19 How does this demonstrate the source of faith?

20 Who is the Accuser in history?

21 Who are the greatest usurpers in history?

22 What is the relationship between faith healing, juxtaposition, connectivity and a poetic leap?

23 Why does hope belong only to the living?

24 What is meant by true love?

25 How can true love heal?

26 What is the oldest written language?

27 Does writing a language cause its death?

28 Where do ideas come from?

29 What is the unpardonable sin?

30 How does one keep the faith?

31 How does "a rose by any other name" apply to cross cultural beliefs?

32 Where does the visible end and the invisible begin and how do they relate to outliving oneself.

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