Brainstorming about history, politics, literature, religion, and other topics from a 'gypsy' scholar on a wagon hitched to a star.
Strange Imperative!
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 9:36 AM
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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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Autumn approaches, and obviously you are looking forward to butternut squash, which compares in your imagination to enjoying the poetry of the great Pound!
What's butternut squash?
Jeffery Hodges
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It's a variety favored by canines and Homo sapiens with a taste for dogfood (seniors on a fixed income, lunatics, hippies, and so on). Wrigley tried to make it into a chewing gum, to no avail, alas.
Ah! So sorry! I thought you said butterMutt squash. My mistake.
But as to your question, please click HERE.
Perhaps this will inspire you to write some butternut squash limericks?
Lovely photo.
Jeffery Hodges
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