Well, I would have laughed, but it totally destroyed my point. No, he just
didn't want me to classify poets/writers as "Zen," if they weren't really
"Zen." Jeez, talk about splitting hot dogs....


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom White" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: quick question


> Kate:
> The professors joke is kinda funny, unless he really believed it was a
valid
> commentary on Buddhist thought or anything else "Eastern." If he did that,
> I'd get myself a new prof. Life is too short to fool around with
> closed-minded boobs. Tom White (student manqué, matriculated about 1,000
> year ago, but still reading Pound).
>
> > From: Kate Cone <[log in to unmask]>
> > Reply-To: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine
> > <[log in to unmask]>
> > Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 18:58:22 -0500
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: quick question
> >
> > Sylvester:
> >
> > No, not Orono -- I'm in the American & New England Studies masters
program
> > at USM. I have knock-down, drag-outs with (especially) one prof who,
after I
> > maintained that the character in a Wendell Berry short story became one
with
> > his surroundings in nature, said, "Did you hear the one about the
Buddhist
> > and the hotdog vendor? The Buddhist said, "Make me one with everything."
> >
> > I'd like to do some type of graduate project on this, but I'm at the end
of
> > my masters, looking at PhD programs. Perhaps my dissertation.
> >
> > KC
> >
> >
>