Brainstorming about history, politics, literature, religion, and other topics from a 'gypsy' scholar on a wagon hitched to a star.
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posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 12:00 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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I'm reminded of the following two-jokes-in-one:
A Buddhist comes up to a hot-dog vendor and says, "Make me one with everything."
After the Buddhist gets his dog, the vendor says, "That'll be three bucks." The Buddhist hands over a ten. The vendor pockets the ten and does nothing further.
"What about my change?" demands the Buddhist. The vendor replies:
"Change comes from within."
The Buddhist then says "Fine" and proceeds to shake the man down upside down, but nothing drops out. "Where's my seven bucks? Don't you have any change?" the Buddhist snaps.
"None," says the vendor. "Dollar bills only. You'll just have to bill me."
Jeffery Hodges
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