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 @ 5:09 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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writing on the window is french
aurelien
Thanks. I should have enlarged the image and looked more carefully. I saw the word "Sandwich" and didn't check the other words.
Do you think it's Paris?
Jeffery Hodges
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Don't know whether it's Paris, but it's "Ouvert Jour et Nuit."
In keeping with the French theme, today's captcha code says "aAmerci." Of course, that could also be an "America" in which the frightened lower-case "a" has run around to cower behind the upper-case "A."
I wonder if the image has been photoshopped -- the man drinking seems to have no difficulty holding the enormous snifter with one hand!
Jeffery Hodges
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The photo was taken between 1960-1969 by a photographer named Keystone.
It is NOT photoshopped.
The shop serving these large beers did exist, and many people drank them.
http://cache1.asset-cache.net/gc/3321710-circa-1960-three-men-drinking-from-a-large-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=57OmwzezvQMHTADfk8TIfuwDvHv%2bWs3lF%2fLHPrRhfPTqQ7sFkKqCYEbjBP%2f3TpmU
Thanks, Anonymous. Let me link to that site for the Keystone photo.
Jeffery Hodges
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