Great Wise Saying
Money can't buy you happiness, but it can afford you a lot of fun.
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 6:27 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, March 30, 2021
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."
5 Comments:
I hear the voice of my best buddy saying, "Use it on hookers and blow."
Never having tried either, I'll have to assume that's bad advice.
Jeffery Hodges
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I doubt my best buddy has tried those, either.
And I know you haven't tried them, either, given your strict teetotaler's lifestyle concerning alcohol.
Jeffery Hodges
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And when I say "bad advice," I mean "Baaad! Add Vice!"
Jeffery Hodges
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