[Buddha-l] Fwd: H-NET BOOK REVIEW>Edelglass and Garfield, eds., Buddhist Philosophy: Essential Readings

[Richard Hayes]

On Oct 18, 2009, at 3:58 AM, Jim Peavler wrote:

> Also, some moderator let kinda a long one through the length filter.
> Not self interest I hope!

The posting to which you refer broke just about every rule in the  
book. It was much too long, and it was forwarded from another  
discussion group, when a simple link would have sufficed. And it was  
actually about Buddhism, as opposed to Malaysian politics or  
irrigation ditches in rural Laos. The moderator should be fired for  
falling asleep at the wheel.

Well, in the moderator's defense, let me point out that it could have  
been worse. The message might have been sent in HTML, making it at  
least three times as bulky. And it could have been appended as a reply  
to another very long message or, better yet, an entire daily digest.

Incidentally, I am using the Edelglass and Garfield reader in a  
seminar over here in Leiden. The people attending the seminar seem to  
be liking it so far. Many of the people attending the seminar are well  
into adulthood, and some may be nearing retirement age, so they are  
considerably more mature and better educated than the average student  
in a typical college class back in the new country. Besides, they are  
actually doing the reading. And they can all spell properly and  
construct grammatically correct English sentences, of course, since  
they are Dutch. In short, I still do not have a clear idea what it  
might be like to use the reader at a state university in some place  
like, say, Albuquerque or Las Cruces.

I have been hoping to see a roadrunner running along a canal, but so  
far have only seen ducks, mergansers, geese, swans, herons and cranes.

moderately yours,
Richard