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	<description>The Web Log of Nathan P. Gilmour</description>
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		<title>Moving&#8230; Again</title>
		<link>http://hardlylastword.wordpress.com/2009/01/31/moving-again/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, I&#8217;ll still be in beautiful Statham, Georgia, but I&#8217;ve made the move to a self -hosted blog.  Below are a live link and the url.
Hardly the Last Word
http://www.nathangilmour.com/hardly/
As you&#8217;ll see fairly quickly, the look is cool, there&#8217;s a menu in the lower left corner so that each user can save your data for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hardlylastword.wordpress.com&blog=1772321&post=1827&subd=hardlylastword&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Spirit of Monarchy and the Spirit of Republic</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comp class yesterday was quite fun.  We started out digging into the text of the Declaration of Independence, a document that, for good reasons and bad, has become a sort of canonical document in America, good for quoting and waving as a talisman but not often good for reading.  My students immediately picked up on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hardlylastword.wordpress.com&blog=1772321&post=1825&subd=hardlylastword&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conjuring with the Bible and Listening to Devils</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most interesting line of questioning from today&#8217;s lit survey class was one for which I had not prepared adequately.  (I recognize that such is the finitude of humanity, but I still often wish to have such days back.)  As we discussed the opening scenes of Christopher Marlowe&#8217;s Doctor Faustus, a couple students noted what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hardlylastword.wordpress.com&blog=1772321&post=1819&subd=hardlylastword&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arm&#8217;s Length or All In?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t give my best lesson ever yesterday in comp, but it wasn&#8217;t bad either.
Our main texts for the day were excerpts from John Locke&#8217;s Second Treatise on Government and Jean Jacques Rousseau&#8217;s The Social Contract, and my initial plan was to use the question of children&#8217;s education to point up the radical differences between [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hardlylastword.wordpress.com&blog=1772321&post=1817&subd=hardlylastword&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Tragic Lesson Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m looking at my notes for today&#8217;s lesson on the final two acts of King Lear in English Literature Survey course, and I believe that if I made a list of the six most interesting bits I wanted to get to, I&#8217;d have missed five of them.  I know we were there for seventy-five minutes, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hardlylastword.wordpress.com&blog=1772321&post=1813&subd=hardlylastword&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Praise of Small-Town Post Offices</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think that the Heidegger podcast saved me from the grumpiness that I could hear over the lecture around me.
Yes, I&#8217;m listening to a Berkeley course on Heidegger&#8217;s Being and Time as I read through it with Michial Farmer.  It&#8217;s quite nice.
Anyway, as I listened to Hubert Dreyfus expound on the role of norms in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hardlylastword.wordpress.com&blog=1772321&post=1811&subd=hardlylastword&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I just wouldn&#8217;t be able to make it</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 05:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No Snickering&#8211;That Road Sign Means Something Else
This NYT article had me laughing out loud&#8211;being a sucker for the unintentional inappropriate joke, I was loving every minute of it.  The best part, though, was this map of the place-names.  Now there&#8217;s a map.
“Sniggering at double entendres is a loved and time-honored tradition in this country,” Carol [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hardlylastword.wordpress.com&blog=1772321&post=1805&subd=hardlylastword&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Home Page Up and Running</title>
		<link>http://hardlylastword.wordpress.com/2009/01/23/new-home-page-up-and-running/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my brother&#8217;s advice, I went ahead and registered the domain http://www.nathangilmour.com a while ago, and in the intervening time I&#8217;ve been putting together a new professional page.  So take a gander if you will, and if you have suggestions for the banner, do give them&#8211;I&#8217;m no graphic designer, and this fourth iteration of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hardlylastword.wordpress.com&blog=1772321&post=1803&subd=hardlylastword&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Putting One&#8217;s Eyes Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m once again in debt to Fran Teague, my wonderful dissertation director, for a bit of pedagogical gold.  When we took on King Lear in her graduate Shakespeare class in 2005, she introduced the history-of-theater question of how one could stage Cornwall&#8217;s and Regan&#8217;s brutal act of putting Gloucester&#8217;s eyes out on a thrust stage.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hardlylastword.wordpress.com&blog=1772321&post=1801&subd=hardlylastword&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Playing the Atheist</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday&#8217;s class landed me in a strange place but one that, for the moment, I&#8217;m alright with.  As I&#8217;ve noted elsewhere, I don&#8217;t go out of my way to announce that I&#8217;m a Christian but also don&#8217;t duck the question when students ask.  (I do, after all, often make reference to the text of biblical [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hardlylastword.wordpress.com&blog=1772321&post=1796&subd=hardlylastword&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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