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 > >