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wait just one second oh no it's all right since there are new people in the class I thought it might be useful for me quickly to go over some of the Preparatory material that I gave you at the begin gave the class at the beginning of last week what I did in addition to uh a good deal of preparation that you already familiar with present 208 or the beginnings of 28 topics on the nature of creativity that being the focus of the seminar so I'll go very quickly over the ones I talked about last time they'll all be coming back in for further analysis and clarification so it doesn't matter that um I'm sure changing you uh this time after I fin the totality of them we'll take a break and then uh Joe Blaine here we'll give this week's reading and we can have a free discussion along any lines that she [Music] determines the first topic was the the idea of the Artist as an isolated individual living in a Garrett and living a life different from ordin...

IAN HUTCHINSON: Let's just finish this off by cleaning up this plot and saving it. In the first case, I don't have any labels on my axes. That's bad. Let me put some labels on my axes. X-label is the way you do this. And in this case I have a very simple label that I want. And the same thing, presumably for Y-label. That will at least put some labels on. Aren't they horribly small? But they are there. Now, I want to improve this plot in general. Let me point out another thing that I want to do. I don't want to have hold on permanently, so let me put hold off after the second plot. And that's going to avoid difficulties in the future. So I'm just going to save that. Now in order to improve the size of the labels and so forth that's involved with this, there are a number of things one can do. And in general, I'm going to do this for many of my plots. And so what I want to do is I want to illustrate the fact that my script-- which is calle...

just informal if you want to be a little bit more formal you can say what well we're not going to bed yet you're saying you're going to die is today is an important day in italy because it's the beginning of carne vale carnevales is carnival i think you are familiar originally italy the celebration of carnival was the celebration of the end of the winter and the beginning of the spring it should be much later here in boston it's not usually february in italy usually middle of february is a good time when it starts to get warmer and it's not spring but it's the beginning so carne vale is carnival it starts today and it will end on tuesday next tuesday tuesday is martini today and we call this specific tuesday means fats yeah it's fat tuesday so why is fat tuesday well because typically we would eat very very fat food and you have some examples here these are some typical sweets that we eat for carnevale they're both deep fried so we'...