Today I found that the content my lecturer, Adrian, talked about was quite confusing, philosophical, and very deep. He was talking about materials and how it matters, about understanding things is crucial to using certain items which in my minds sort of links to how useless if we have a car but don’t know how to use it. Afterwards there are several parts that confused me for example the rhyme, totally not sure what was that one about. Then he started to make example of explaining- what a book is and what it is used for and how do you used it to someone who has never seen, touched, heard of a book. Suffice to say it is very hard. It went through a very long list of how’s to. How can you tell a person that a book is something to read if said person never seen one, how do you tell them to flip a page if they don’t know what a page is, how do you tell them to read a book to gain knowledge if they can’t read. This has to go way back to the beginning starting on the printing press as well the language use on the book. Adrian mentioned that the material of the book somewhat limits the medium.

However one point after the material topic, he went on about beginnings, middle, and end.  which makes me start to think about it, why do we write beginnings, middle, and end? Betty, my tutor, sort of talked about how ideas were shaped by Aristotle. For me this was an interesting as I one of my hobbies is writing stories so I didn’t realized this little fact until it was brought to light. I guess in our own way it is our culture that shaped it, I mean because we listen to stories and read to stories there is always something, “Once upon a time…” that marks as a beginning and “The end/ happily ever after” that marks the end of a story that we no longer pay attention to it but it does intriguing to whether do we really need one. Adrian says that ‘the end’ does not really mean the end, it just that the book must end because of the limitation of the medium. But something to think about is that book is materials that have limits, there can be only certain page and certain sizes. But what about if some materials that do not have limitation, Will we have an ending or final page?

If we use our own personal experience as ‘story’ then in actuality we don’t really have a beginning or ending, all we have is middle. I don’t consider that when you are born it is the start because then it is arguable that the moment our parents created us then that might be a start but again it is not up to our decision whether we are created or not it is up to a more higher being and in my beliefs that is GOD. Anyway back to story, and we don’t really have end because we don’t really know where we go after we died, in Christians we believe in heaven and hell therefore our journey don’t really stoop when we dies, it just continues to other things. Like a book having a sequel or something. Anyway I think this was a fascinating thing to think about.

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