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__**Middlesex: Clarinete Serenade, News of the World, and Ex Ovo Omnia**__ __7. Term or Theory__
 * Gender Identity and Cal's Voice
 * 166, Cal notices Julie's dirty fingernails (female) but then comments on her breasts (male)
 * 167, Cal worries about whether or not to tell Julie about him, but his diction with all of its questions and worries reminds me of a girl's worries (female)
 * 168, "saw my first naked mannequins, dancing a murderous tango" male to female
 * 169, "'This is my country,' Lefty said, and to prove it, he id a very american thing: he reached under the counter and produced a pistol" Male mindset because its all go my country let me get my gun, but then "These conflicts lie in the past now...overshadowed by a much bigger conflict" is more Female
 * 173, female, "is there anything as incredible as the love story of your own parents?" to male metaphor of sports
 * 174, Calliope when cal writes, "even looking back with a daughter's forgiving eye..." but this almost implies that Cal can choose when he lets his feminine upbringing effect his mindset.
 * 174, male assertion, "Theodora's physical appeal was more obvious," followed by a typically feminine analysis and detailed picture, "swan like neck"
 * 178, female analysis of why Mike was attracted to Theodora, "He might have been responding to the need in Tessie's eyes, her desperate yearning to believe that there was something instead of nothing"
 * 183-4, factories (male) interfused by art (female), cal is attracted to Julie, an asian or the "last stop" for homosexual men, who's "gay-dar" went off when she first met him.
 * 189, father mike's handwriting is connected to feminine attributes, "his handwriting, like his voice, was feminine and neat" but what does this mean? in general and to Cal specifically. that the more feminine man did not get the girl he wanted? just for the record though i'm a girl and i have horrible handwriting, but i'm more math and science, and thus masculine?, brained so does that make a difference? I'll mention it in class and take a poll.
 * 197, cal's diction when describing Mike as the "vanquished suitor" and saying, "the two rivals came face-to-face" is feminine
 * 199, fascination with science and bugs is male voice
 * 203-204 female when mention's Lefty and what he's feeling, but mostly male because is right to the point
 * 210, details and to the point in paragraph "As dinner dishes..." is male voice
 * 211, "so I raise one fist (male-typically) and begin to beat on the walls of my eggshell..." so now Cal identifies with his masculinity
 * Fate
 * 195, D allows milton and Tessie to marry because she thinks he will die...mention of fate.
 * 196, fate saves milton from war just in time
 * 196, Milton does not go and fix the church in Bythanios, Cal believes that this causes his fate, "His procrastination would have disastrous effects, if you believe in that sort of thing, which, some days, when the old Greek blood is running high, I do"
 * could this connect back to what we thought for Ford vs Minotaur, that feminine voice was associated with Greek, and not science?
 * 210-211, "Biology gods" and personification of the gene is a weird mix of science and traditional beliefs and such
 * Greek vs American and Past vs Present are all combining like Circle Imagery
 * 202-203, seen throughout the diner (Hercules Hot Dogs 201)...connection with difference in generations?
 * 200, 207, Smyrna Beach is a combination of Greek and American
 * 205, "underworld" as gambling, excitement compared to when he went to Bursa, paper scraps of debt in pockets
 * 206, dream books is a Greek influence on Americans
 * 209, mention of attic and how it is like the mountain and the story circles back to where they began!!! "Up in the attic, Desdemona and Lefty came back to where they started. As does my story" could this be why D and L's relationship becomes less like a marriage? not only as a result of children but rather them returning to the way they used to live?? connection to the movie "the curious case of tom buttons" not the real name but something like that where the man is born old and gets younger.
 * 211, mention of clarinet is like a circle and past coming to present moment

__Questions__
 * is Cal attracted to Julie because of the reasons she initially suspects, being a last stop?
 * What is the significance of the connection to Hamlet pg 195?
 * If I read the book with a fate, angering the gods kind of mindset: By not fixing the church in Bythanios, does Milton bring on the "curse" of his child being intersex or is it still from the siblings marrying?
 * Does Cal believe in fate or science, and if both where does he differentiate?
 * What does cal mean by his egg metaphor and his belief that we know everything before we are born throughout the chapter //Ex Ovo Omnia//? Circles? pg 211 especially

__Anasazi Ceremonial Cave pg 207__ Lina and Mrs. Watson took pictures at one and must have been traveling the US. I'm not sure what the significance is though. the Anasazi are native americans in new mexico area and were around the time of the navajos and could be even older. they are called the ancient ones from the navajo language. one website said that the Hopi are considered their direct descendants and most of there ceremonies are dances. http://www.phototripusa.com/e_gallery_0601.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Pueblo_Peoples http://historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/american_indians/anasazi.html http://www.ehow.com/list_6862777_types-religious-ceremonies-anasazi-indians.html

__Dream Books pg 206__ The Greeks have been interpreting dreams since ancient times. in modern time there was freud (everything in you dream is an unconscious desire too outrageous for your waking mind) and jung (dreams are desires from everyday life but are not that different from what you experience consciously and rather help you achieve your goals). Lefty says that the greeks are the reason that dream books became popular, but freud was becoming popular then too, so i doubt that the influence was solely greek. http://www.tryskelion.com/tryskelion/dreamhis.htm http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/ancient-greece-dream-beliefs/ http://www.dreammoods.com/dreaminformation/dreamtheory/freud.htm