Random Thoughts

I'm a notorious paper saver. I jot notes everywhere and throw them into various files. (Pascal did this and stuffed them into the lining of his coat for some odd reason). Here's a sampling of my Pensees concerning Ecclesiastes. If you can't make sense of these, join the club. I'm not sure what I was thinking.

1. Focal point
2. Characters in relief with each other
3. Diffusion of expectation
4. Counter point
5. Ethereal
6. Ambiguity
7. Pre-visualized fantasy
8. Stink eye
9. cultural landscape
10. inner Zala
11. write the plot in one sentence
12. synaptic cinematic firing of ideas
13. slight tilt of the head with much meaning
14. Jedi
15. hoodie
16. what do characters hear? Voices, lap top keys clicking, cell phones going off/vibrating, shuffled papers
17. What weather do they experience? They're indoors.
18. Illustrate Pascal's Pensees or Kierkegaard's Sickness Unto Death
19. omniscient shot (camera angle of viewer who watches this drama in the class room--12 Angry Men)
20. What is plural of axis? Axees? 
21. I'm a non-atheist
22. booty call
23. metro sexual
24. Mr. Q is foil to students; students are foil to Mr. Q

Out of this oddball collection of two dozen mind scraps I can respond to item 11, "Write the plot in one sentence." Here it is.

"A mishmash of university students with a variety of interests respond to the philosophical ramblings of a depressed existentialist."