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
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> Behalf Of Mark Weiss
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> Subject: Re: Melbourne Univ: Dean's Lecture: Professor Terry Eagleton
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> 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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> >cancels another, remembrance
> >is a foolish act, a double-heded snake
> >striking in both directions
> >
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