Re: Re[4]: THE RHETORICAL THEORY

M C Morgan (mcmorg@VAX1.BEMIDJI.MSUS.EDU)
Wed, 7 Aug 1996 05:56:50 -0500


At 9:45 PM -0400 on 8/6/96, Steve Krause wrote regarding Re: Re[4]: THE
RHETORICAL THEORY -

>You can't convince someone to change faith with
>rhetoric, and you can't convince someone to change faith with mere
>faith. I'm going to stick with green,you're going to stick with purple,
>and we'll just have to agree to disagree. Or, as is often the case with
>religious wars, kill each other.

Steve -
Waddabout religious conversion? Br. Jed doesn't speak to me either, but
that's not to say his rhetoric (such as it is) doesn't convert. Or, on a
favorit color level, advertising attempts to convert our fave raves--in
running shoes, soda pop, breakfast cereals--all the time. Ok: Nike over
Converse isn't so much a matter of faith but people love to place matters
of "taste" off-limits to rhetoric--in the same place they put matters of
faith.

M C Morgan,
Ass't Prof English
Director of Writing Resource Center
Bemidji State University
Bemidji MN 56601
218.755.2814

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