Insulting Compliment of the Week
You looked so much younger when you were young.
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 12:15 AM
2 comments
Gypsy Scholar
Brainstorming about history, politics, literature, religion, and other topics from a 'gypsy' scholar on a wagon hitched to a star.
Monday, March 29, 2021
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:
Sounds like something a Korean would say. With Koreans, it's always yin and yang: when you deliver a compliment, you also slip in an insult—you give, and you take away. "Kevin, you're so smart, but you need to lose weight!" Said out of concern, of course. (cough)
Or an insult . . . followed by an irrelevant compliment, such as, you look like a beached whale, but the beach is beautiful.
Jeffery Hodges
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