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 > > > > >