Notes from 9/12

GQ list of wealthiest fictional characters
Santa Claus
Richie Rich
Daddy Warbucks
Scrooge McDuck
Thurston Howl III
Willy Wonka
Bruce Wayne
Lex Luthor
E.J. Ewing
Charles Montgomery Burns
Charles Foster Kane

Flirtation was described by Judson as "dancing around the boundaries of comfort."
What is dancing? All dancing is a kind of flirtation. All dancing is also dirty dancing; so when we dance around the boundaries of comfort we are simultansously dancing around the boundaries of desire.

"Flirtation derives from the ancient phenomenon of marriage by abduction." Geroge Simmel
You can see this demonstrated by the custom of the groom carrying the bride over the threshhold and into his house.
Until then the female has the power to be the chooser and flirtation is her way of exercising her power and asserting her freedom. Once she is engaged the game is over.
This is how Daisy exercises her power over Winterbourne. She has control of the game, but when he is given the chance to win her over and regain control he fails and she falls into the hands of another.

Henry James was proclaimed "The Master" just as Elvis was "The King." He was extremely rich but had trouble deciding whether to live in America or Europe.

The passage in the movie Citizen Kane where Mr. Bernstein talks about the girl in the white dress on the ferry might be about Daisy Miller. Daisy Miller represents the platonic ideal . Why was the movie going to be called "the American?" American represents wealth and power both of which Kane has.
Also mentioned were the following reviews of Citizen Kane:
Roger Ebert
Peter Bogdanovich (the director of Daisy Miller)

"Carried away" you can be carried away literally, physically, metaphorically, and symbolically.
Tropes- figurative language