A disoriented frog? You mean Derrida?
At 12:55 PM 11/24/2007, you wrote:
>Ay. Eagleton's long list of referents reminded me of McLuhan, who has a
>habit of hopping from person to person paragraph by paragraph, like a
>disoriented frog.
>
>P
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> > Behalf Of Mark Weiss
> > Sent: 24 November 2007 16:59
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Melbourne Univ: Dean's Lecture: Professor Terry Eagleton
> >
> > I'd forgotten that aspect of academia. When I was at Hopkins they
> > used to invite speakers in order to skewer them in the questions
> > period. Only two escaped uunscathed--Isaiah Berlin and Marshall
> > MacLuhan. Couldn't lay a glove on them.
> >
> > At 11:10 AM 11/24/2007, you wrote:
> > >Ah, of course, & over Jesus, too?
> > >
> > >Doug
> > >On 23-Nov-07, at 4:15 PM, Peter Cudmore wrote:
> > >
> > >>I figure that it must be a rhetorical claim: Lacan being notoriously
>dense,
> > >>Eagleton, by claiming to be able to put his finger on Lacan's
>originality,
> > >>proclaims mastery over him.
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> > >is a foolish act, a double-heded snake
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> > >
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