Brainstorming about history, politics, literature, religion, and other topics from a 'gypsy' scholar on a wagon hitched to a star.
with mighty wings outspreadHow did you arrange the terms and lines? This is too easy, I know, but you guys have been working hard recently.
Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss
There with vast wings across the cancelled skies,
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 12:09 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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The three lines of verse seem already to be in order and grouped according to author, so
(Wast present,) and with mighty wings outspread
Dove-like sat’st brooding on the vast abyss (found here)
= Milton, creation (given the "mad'st it pregnant" line that follows)
There with vast wings across the cancelled skies,
= MacLeish, uncreation (word association: cancelled, nullified, annihilated, uncreated)
Right-o! Told you it was easy!
Jeffery Hodges
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