J. Frank Dobie

Subject: J. Frank Dobie Tue 20 Nov 2007, 11:33 pm

Some might say that our eminent folklorist straddled the fence between the factual and the imagined, but that's well okay by me Smile

Lady Trees wrote:

"I think my dad mentioned something about taking English from Dobie at UT many years ago. What a gift that must have been eh?"

I should say so!

What manner of teacher was J. Frank Dobie? Inquiring minds want to know (please tell Dad so Smile

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The woman of the frontier made the best of her situation, for she had developed a respect for the land that gave her freedom as well as the courage to live in it.
~~~ from the perspective of Anne Seagraves

Wrangler Joined : 13 Nov 2007 Posts : 49

Decided to move this from Basements to this more appropriate thread:

Wrangler Joined : 13 Nov 2007 Posts : 49

Dad said he didn't take English from Dobie, but Dobie was teaching there during the years he attended.

Subject: Re: J. Frank Dobie Wed 21 Nov 2007, 5:04 pm

That's close enough!

By the way, what did you think of The Wild Woman of the Navidad?
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The woman of the frontier made the best of her situation, for she had developed a respect for the land that gave her freedom as well as the courage to live in it.
~~~ from the perspective of Anne Seagraves

Wrangler Joined : 13 Nov 2007 Posts : 49

I only vaguely remember that one. I guess I only vaguley remembered the other on too. My paraphrasing was awful, I must set things straight from the book:

"One fall a squatter on the Canadian River, in the Panhandle, bought a thermometer. Thermometers were rare things then. The squatter wanted to give his and the weather both a fair test. It was a big thermometer, as long as the pendulum of a grandfather's clock. He drove a 20 penny nail in the corner post of the yard fence he had just built and hung the thermometer on it, facing north. A few weeks later he happened to be looking out the window at this corner post when a norther struck. He said he couldn't belive his eyes. He saw the post push down into the earth as is driven by a pile criver. But there wasn't any pile driver. The mercury tube was so strong at the bottom of the thermometer, the nail in the post was so strong at the top, and the drop in the temperature was so sudden, that the mercury simply took the post down with it. It drove that post into the clay foundation right at two feet, the squatter said."

Cracks me up every time I think about it.

Subject: Re: J. Frank Dobie Thu 22 Nov 2007, 11:43 am

Your paraphrase was very nice, too Smile

I was surprised not long ago -- when taking up Dobie's, 'Coronado's Children' -- to come face-to-face with the title page of the SIXTH AND SEVENTH BOOK OF MOSES, THE SCHEMHAMFORAS (which will certainly bring to light the Treasures of Earth, if buried in the Treasure-Earth), From the Arcan Bible of Moses, FROM P. Hoffman, Jesuit.

I don't know very much about this work of esoterica, but in addition to supposedly helping one locate a cache or treasure, portions of its text have been adopted by some German traditional healers in their practice.
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The woman of the frontier made the best of her situation, for she had developed a respect for the land that gave her freedom as well as the courage to live in it.
~~~ from the perspective of Anne Seagraves

Subject: J. Frank Dobie, 'A Texan in England' Sun 06 Apr 2008, 9:31 pm

'A Texan in England,' by J. Frank Dobie, is one of many books which I have seen, thumbed through, but not read. Does anyone else, who has delved in, have impressions of it?

Thanks.
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The woman of the frontier made the best of her situation, for she had developed a respect for the land that gave her freedom as well as the courage to live in it.
~~~ from the perspective of Anne Seagraves