Brainstorming about history, politics, literature, religion, and other topics from a 'gypsy' scholar on a wagon hitched to a star.
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 4:12 AM
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I am a retired professor. I last taught at Ewha Womans University, mostly composition, research writing, and cultural issues, but also the occasional graduate seminar on Gnosticism and Johannine theology and the occasional undergraduate course on European history. My doctorate is in history (U.C. Berkeley), with emphasis on religion and science. My thesis is on John's gospel and Gnosticism. I'm also an award-winning writer, and I recommend my novella, The Bottomless Bottle of Beer, to anyone interested. I'm originally from the Arkansas Ozarks, but my academic career -- funded through doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships (e.g., Fulbright, Naumann, Lady Davis) -- has taken me through Texas, California, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, and Israel and has landed me in Seoul, South Korea. I've also traveled to Mexico, visited much of Europe, including Moscow, and touched down briefly in a few East Asian countries. Hence: "Gypsy Scholar."
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Ha! That's great!
Thanks, KM. I say things as honestly as I can see things.
Jeffery Hodges
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My antique dictionary says the following:
odalisque. Fr. from Turk. odaliq. A harem companion, from odah. a chamber.
a. a female slave or concubine in an Oriental harem.
This makes it a noun. Has the meaning changed to an adjective, verb or adverb?
Of course I am a naive, outdated hillbilly.
Or should I just let it be?
Cran
.....'sqe, it
.....biscuit
"Lie"
Hmmm.....Who was the Englishman who wrote....
I put my hat upon my head,
and walked upon the strand,
And as I walked I met a man,
whose hat was in his hand?
I'm no poet, (and I know it),
My feet don't show it,
(Not Longfellows).
{stolen and twisted from somebody}.
Poetry, you see,
ain't my cup 'o tea.
Cran
Uncle Cran, it's a noun, as you note. But I haven't yet understood why you were asking.
So poetry
is not your tea?
You manage to rhyme, which a lot of modern poets don't.
Not that there's anything wrong with that...
Jeffery Hodges
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