I. JOANNA LIES TO HER PARENTS TO COVER FOR SOPHIE’S ABSENCE AT THE CHURCH. NOTE THAT SOPHIE HERSELF (P. 186) BEGINS TO WONDER IF HILDE CAN SEE EVERYTHING THEY DO. THAT IS NOT WITHOUT SIGNIFICANCE, AND HOW FROM WHAT WE HAVE SEEN THUS FAR, HAS SOPHIE REACHED THAT CONCLUSION?

II. SOPHIE SEES AN APPARITION IN THE BRASS MIRROR THAT SHE TOOK FROM THE MAJOR’S CABIN? WHO IS THE "OTHER GIRL?" CONSIDER AS AN ADJUNCT WHAT JUNG NOTED ABOUT THE SHADOW ARCHETYPE. CLICK HERE FOR MY ARTICLE.

III. SOPHIE'S DREAM: (p. 187)

A. SOPHIE SEES "HILDE" RUN TO A MAN IN UNIFORM, LEAVING BEHIND A GOLD CROSS AT A DOCK, AND WONDERS IF THE DOCK REALLY DOES EXIST SOMEWHERE: FORESHADOWING AGAIN.

B. SHE FINDS A GOLD CROSS UNDER HER PILLOW WITH THE INITIALS : "HMK." SHE AND WE MIGHT WILL WONDER HOW ANYTHING ABOUT WHICH WE DREAM CAN COME BACK?

C. HERMES TAKES SOPHIE TO KNOX'S ADDRESS.

D. WHAT IS THE PHILOSOPHICAL IMPORTANCE OF THE CROSS COMING FROM THE DREAM? (P. 188)

E. THE DREAM AND ITS AFTERMATH SUGGEST EVENTS THAT APPEAR TO DEFY LOGIC, BUT RECALL:

• LOGIC IS NOT THE SAME AS TRUTH--(BACON'S CRITIQUE OF SCHOLASTICISM)
  • LOGIC:
    • ALL MEN ARE SIX FEET TALL
    • JOHN IS A MAN
    • JOHN IS SIX FEET TALL
  • THE SYLLOGISM IS LOGICAL BUT NOT TRUE.

• PHILOSOPHY ASKS, 'WHAT IS REASONABLE TO BELIEVE?'

IV. THE POSTCARD FROM HILDE'S DAD : HUMAN LIFE AND THE AGES:

A. ANTIQUITY = CHILDHOOD.

B. MIDDLE AGES = SCHOOL DAYS.

C. RENAISSANCE = THE TEEN YEARS AFTER SCHOOL:--WHAT DOES THE ANALOGY MEAN?

D. AN ADMONITION ABOUT LOSING THE CROSS. HILDE'S DAD DOES SEEM TO KNOW A GREAT DEAL, PERHAPS AN 'OMNISCIENT' PERSPECTIVE?

VII. THE RENAISSANCE AND THE MEETING WITH KNOX:

A. KNOX’S ROOM IS A ‘SMITHSONIAN’ OF HISTORY.

B. NOTE ON PAGE 191 THAT ALBERTO IS DRESSED LIKE A ___? WHY?

C. WHO IS GETTING MORE AUDACIOUS, AND IS ALBERTO CORRECT IN ARGUING THAT THIS PERSON KNOWS 'PRACTICALLY EVERYTHING?' (P. 193). THERE IS YET ANOTHER REFERENCE TO THE WHITE RABBIT BEING PULLED OUT OF...? RECALL THE MEANING METAPHORICALLY.

D. "ONLY PHILOSOPHY CAN BRING US CLOSER TO HILDE'S FATHER" means what? (P. 193)

E. THE WORD 'BAGATELLE' IS USED FREQUENTLY, (p 193). AND BY WHOM? WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

VIII. THE RENAISSANCE:

A. RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION--the Challenge of Luther (1483-1546).

B. THE START OF THE SCIENTIFIC AGE COULD NOT HAVE OCCURRED WITHOUT?

C. THE PRINTING PRESS AND THE POWER OF TECHNOLOGY.

D. RENAISSANCE HUMANISM AND NATURE: BACON (p. 200) AND THE REBELLION AGAINST THE LOGIC OF ARISTOTLE:

1--COPERNICUS--(p. 201) the new astronomy
2--GALILEO--(p. 202 ff.) the founder of modern physics
3--KEPLER--(p. 202) mathematical explanation of the solar system's operation
4--NEWTON--( 206) "I stood on the shoulder of giants."

E. WHO IS NOW IN CONTROL?

1.NATURE MEANS WHAT?
2.HUMANISM MEANS WHAT?
3.WHAT IS THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD?

IX. A NEW RELIGION:

A. PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP TO GOD.

B. THE EDUCATED RESPONSE--LUTHER: what had to be reformed, and why?

X. ALBERTO ‘SLIPS’ AND CALLS SOPHIE HILDE!!!(p. 210), BUT IS IT REALLY A SLIP SINCE HILDE'S DAD IS PUTTING WORDS IN THEIR MOUTHS, AND IS EXPLOITING THEIR WEAKNESSES.

XI. IF YOU HAD TO ASSIGN HILDE'S DAD A PERSPECTIVE, WHAT WOULD IT BE?

XII. SOPHIE FINDS A COIN ON THE STREET THAT SHE NEEDS TO GET HOME AND WONDERS IF ______LEFT IT THERE? RECALL THE CHAPTER ON FATE. MUST ALL OF THIS BE? (AND REMEMBER WE ARE CONSIDERING THE RENAISSANCE).