A Tom Swifty?
"Yours is a biting remark!" she snapped at him for sharply lowering her grade.
Perhaps even a double Tom Swifty?
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 12:44 AM
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Gypsy Scholar
Brainstorming about history, politics, literature, religion, and other topics from a 'gypsy' scholar on a wagon hitched to a star.
Saturday, August 01, 2020
About Me
- Name: Horace Jeffery Hodges
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
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."
2 Comments:
Is there an autobiographical component to this story, perhaps? (Believe me, when it comes to student complaints/begging about grades, I've been there.)
Nah, I just made it up . . . though I can't vouch for where it came from. I suspect I have some sort of genetic mutation that creates this kind of 'static' in my brain. I might be taking an IQ test, and I get distracted by some unintended rhyme or alliteration or other linguistic whatnot and lose valuable time musing about that.
Jeffery Hodges
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