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]>
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> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 18:58:22 -0500
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> Subject: Re: quick question
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> 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
>
>