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posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 4:44 AM
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Gypsy Scholar
Brainstorming about history, politics, literature, religion, and other topics from a 'gypsy' scholar on a wagon hitched to a star.
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
About Me
- Name: Horace Jeffery Hodges
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
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."
6 Comments:
(cph here) Hmm; "And He Built A Crooked House" (Heinlein...pretty good one as I remember--involves crazy LA architects, tesseracts, and the San Andreas fault, I believe!!)
You're beyond my ken.
Jeffery Hodges
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The photo definitely reminded me of it; though I believe the LA architect (with a maniacal and ill-advised penchant for hyper-spatial mathematics and stuff) decided to build an "unfolded tesseract" or hypercube; the day after it's finished and he and the realtor are touring some folks around in it, an earthquake makes the thing accidentally 'fold up' to some extent, resulting in entertaining views from one room of the house into the next, etc. etc. And then I believe a second earthquake happens in the night after that, and when they pull up in front the next morning, the house is completely gone! It's a good one. --Pete
Sounds like something to read - and I noticed that Ben's short stories are out and ready.
Jeffery Hodges
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Yes, Ben's book of short stories, "The Fat Artist" is out there for a bit now. Some good stuff there. It's up for contention for the Dylan Thomas prize in a few weeks (as was "Bruno Littlemore"), he's hoping it at least gets him another trip to Wales!
Let's hope it does!
Jeffery Hodges
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