Brainstorming about history, politics, literature, religion, and other topics from a 'gypsy' scholar on a wagon hitched to a star.
On the bathroom wall of a bathroom stall of Baylor University's Philosophy Department appeared these words in Autumn 1975:
"By God, don't say I'm afraid to come to your town . . . and bowl!"
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 8:51 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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Better a bowling novel than a bowel-ing novel, I guess. Or a howling novel, for that matter.
But would a bowling novel have the ghost of a chance at attaining the level of "Great American Novel"? Hardly anybody bowls anymore. Just think of Fred Flintstone and the bowling league he played in. At the time, that seemed so quintessentially American. It now makes the cartoon seem ever so dated.
Jeffery Hodges
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