Brainstorming about history, politics, literature, religion, and other topics from a 'gypsy' scholar on a wagon hitched to a star.
Labels: Remembrance of Things Past
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 4:03 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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For a camel? But could this phrase have another sense, as in doing something for a camel? And how does that change the way we think about camels? Perhaps more inclusive, I shouldn't wonder: As in the first case camels are objectified, while in the second (and whatever it is we are doing for them) we are recognizing their rights and treating them justly. (Albeit said, calling them them does seem to pose the problem of treating them as an other.)
Right! And what does the fact that we will smoke them mean? That we are mean to them?
Jeffery Hodges
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