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Revision: maybe "re" as in "repeat" and maybe meaning "repeat," plus maybe "vision" as in "vision" and maybe meaning "vision," too, so the entire word "revision" maybe means to repeat the same vision a second time.
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 12:08 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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Perhaps the British sense of "revision" (what we Yanks would call a "review") also means "to repeat the same vision a second time."
[somewhere on the road to Damascus]
JESUS: Saul! Saul! Why persecutest thou me?
SAUL: Who is that? —Whoa, Momma! Bright light!
JESUS: Saul! Saul! Why persecutest thou me? (first repetition of vision)
SAUL: Jesus Christ—who is that? And how do I know this isn't a symptom of temporal-lobe epilepsy that will lead to hypergraphia, which will express itself in my future compulsion to write long letters about religion to numerous churches?
JESUS: Saul! Saul! Why persecutest thou me? (revision)
JESUS: Saul! Saul! Why persecutest thou me? (threevision)
That may be, maybe.
Jeffery Hodges
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