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;) > -----Original Message----- > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On > Behalf Of Mark Weiss > Sent: 24 November 2007 18:50 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Melbourne Univ: Dean's Lecture: Professor Terry Eagleton > > 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. > > > >Douglas Barbour > > > >11655 - 72 Avenue NW > > > >Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9 > > > >(780) 436 3320 > > > >http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ > > > > > > > >Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) > > > >http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 > > > > > > > >As one beauty > > > >cancels another, remembrance > > > >is a foolish act, a double-heded snake > > > >striking in both directions > > > > > > > > John Newlove