Brainstorming about history, politics, literature, religion, and other topics from a 'gypsy' scholar on a wagon hitched to a star.
All's swell that ends swell.Swell!
Labels: Etymology
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 8:46 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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All swell that ends swell.
The "'s" is redundant.
All swell that end swell.
The other "s" is also redundant.
I started (in my mind) with Shakespeare:
"All's Well That Ends Well"
I then tried (in my mind) the various 'soundings':
"All's Swell That Ends Swell"
"All Swell That End Swell" etc. . .
I then ran out of time to think rigorously . . .
. . . and you caught me.
Mea culpa . . .
Jeffery Hodges
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HJH,
I don't speak French, but if you do, you might contrive something clever from "Honi soit qui mal y pense" ["Shame be to him who thinks evil of it"].
You probably know that this is the motto of the British chivalric Order of the Garter.
Interestingly, that motto appears at the very end of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," an epic poem from the middle ages that everyone should read.
Jeffery Hodges
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