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 @ 4:04 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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Horace,
I'm not that well-qualified to comment profoundly on your wife's beautiful bird, but I'm taking this opportunity to pursue an unexpected link that I discovered from reading a review of "North Korea's Juche Myth". How does someone from the Arkansas Ozarks with Jeffery (spelled correctly in his name) end up in Korea (where I spent my formative years 1954-61 in Seoul attending SFS)? I am living in DC and haven't been to Korea (North or South) for many years. My grandfather left Arkansas for Texas in the early part of the last century and never went back (as far as I know). My wife did some research and discovered my Arkansas roots, and I've visited Calico Rock, Mountain Home and Mountain View several times. You have my e-mail address - how are we related?
It won't be long before the blog becomes Νεφελοκοκκυγία!
Birdland = Cloud Cuckoo Land.
I had been thinking along the same lines.
Jeffery Hodges
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"Finis Jeffery." Interesting name. Do I have your email? Where does it lurk?
I seem to recall a family name "Jefferies" or "Jeffery" in Izard County, but the name is unrelated to my name "Jeffery."
My middle name "Jeffery" was intended to link me to my maternal grandfather, Henry Jefferson Perryman.
There are, though, these unexpected intersecting paths of ours, almost greater than coincidence can bear.
Thanks for letting me know of these tantalizing 'near-links.'
Jeffery Hodges
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