[lbo-talk] Reversing common wisdom on pornography

[Wendy Lyon]

On 8/27/06, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
> info at pulpculture.org wrote:
> >
> > You might want to read the post again. Seriously.
>
> Mixing irony with exposition often misfires. Since there is no
> syntactical or lexical marker for irony,  some writers have recently
> quite seriously questioned whether it even exists or not. Recognition of
> irony _always_ depends on something akin to mind-reading: i.e. one must
> know in advance the principles that the writer repudiates.  Remember
> what happened to Defoe?

No, she's right, I wasn't reading carefully.    Too hungover.

Apologies ... carry on.