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Time's Decline
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posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 10:59 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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This sounds like the kind of poem an English teacher could use to talk about word order and adverb placement in English. Nicely done.
Thanks!
Jeffery Hodges
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Jeff,
The time is late
the hour here
when she she did write
to bend his ear
Your not so old Baylor friend
Margaret Robinson Sutton
The changing word order enacts the minutely changing stances of the lady in the queue, as she shifts weight, position and attitude to enable her to tolerate the excruciating physical challenge of standing still.
Sounds good to me, Mr. Cusack. Thanks!
Jeffery Hodges
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I haven't forgotten you, Margaret. (Memo: Must check email.)
Jeffery Hodges
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