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From: Nichael Cramer 
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On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, ANDREW SMITH wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Bart Ehrman wrote:
> >     It seems to me that what you're giving is a *caricature* of
> > postmodernist approaches to texts.
> *********************
> Isn't postmodernism the most cruel "caricature" of itself?

;-)

While I have a lot of sympathy with the sentiment, a more generous (and 
perhaps more accurate) phrasing might be: "Isn't what is called
postmodernism by some of its wielder the most crual "caricature" of itself?"

N

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