[Buddha-l] The state of buddha-l: a brief report

[Richard Hayes]

On Aug 15, 2009, at 9:10 PM, Dan Lusthaus wrote:

> What I was
> suggesting was that the pillorying of an out of context message for  
> being
> out of context would have to have been done by someone who thought the
> readership was sufficiently philistine to be fooled by that ploy.

What an interesting suggestion. What I would have suggested is that  
the pillorying of an out-of-context message for being out of context  
would have been done by someone who thought the readership was  
sufficiently sophisticated that they would immediately detect the  
irony and perhaps even be amused by it.