Brainstorming about history, politics, literature, religion, and other topics from a 'gypsy' scholar on a wagon hitched to a star.
Powers that BeExtra Pound had some interest in Zen,
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posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 10:43 PM
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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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Wonder what Extra Pound did in that castle in the Tyrol?
Imagine the peasants with pitchforks and flaming brands surrounding the castle one night...
. . . their torches lit for torture . . .
Jeffery Hodges
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I could see them, too, seeking to torment the poor man with a cage they threatened to put him in... Picture them their, scraping their pitchforks back and forth over the bars of that cage, taunting him, the bars ringing like the iron church bells of Western Civilization itself!
Oh, right. There's a cage somewhere in this little story . . .
Jeffery Hodges
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