Eminem (was: Influenced by GR?)

[one million billionth of a millisecond on a sunday morning]

Paul Mackin writes:
>On students as readers of Pynchon it does strike me that some of the few
>Pynchon readers aside from the p-list I've encountered have been students
>or recently in student status. Even going back a couple of decades V. and

I skew the sample, being a student and all, but a lot of the people
I've talked to are similar; my friends and I read GR at the same time,
I know others who read it around the later part of their undergraduate
degrees, and still others who are exploring Pynchon while somewhere
in their 20s.

Recall what someone (maybe Millison?) said recently: GR is a young man's
book. So the state of affairs seems appropriate. :)

>Lot 49 were sometimes assigned though probably not taught. A nephew read

49 has been taught frequently in the classes covering the appropriate
time period at my institution, at least in the last 5-6 years. I
don't know what people get out of it though; never took that class.



Josh

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