A pig in a poke . . .
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 4:28 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.
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
About Me
- Name: Horace Jeffery Hodges
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
I am a professor at Ewha Womans University, where I teach composition, research writing, and cultural issues, including 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 also work as one-half of a translating team with my wife, and our most significant translation is Yi Kwang-su's novel The Soil, which was funded by the Literature Translation Institute of Korea. 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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7 Comments:
I used to hear teen age boys (when I was one) say about a girl who had just walked by, "When she walks, it looks like two two shoats fighting in a gunny sack." aim nor sure what that means...
Cran
Should have said I'm not sure what that means...(my fingers hit the wrong keys)... Sorry!
Cran
Never heard that one before.
Jeffery Hodges
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It was the Viola crowd, and your father used it now & again.
I suppose Salemites of some previous generation would've known the expression, too.
Jeffery Hodges
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CPH here--When my family first moved to Horseshoe Bend (I was six), Hook Langston's grocery store in Salem was 'it' for groceries in the reasonably-near vicinity. My mom's first visit (with me in tow) passed into family lore, when, as we were checking out, the girl at the register asked my mom (she of the megalopolis of Little Rock her whole life) if she wanted her purchases "in a poke". Needless to say, she did NOT know what in the world the girl was talking about! But we got with the program pretty quickly after that...
That's the story I heard when I first heard of "poke" as "bag" or "sack," which means that this traditional meaning was already passing out of use even in the Ozarks.
Jeffery Hodges
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