The Gnostic Pynchon

[jbor]

Yes, it is enormously worrying that the ol' Protestant ethic ends up being a
more important bottom line than what all that book learnin' shows us about
how indoctrinatory and corrupt it is in the first place. If I'm reading you
guys a-right, that is.

Teachers earn a pretty good wage, in the scheme of things, and don't
necessarily have to sell their souls ...

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>> One wouldn't think so, but it in the end seems that all the theorizing and
>> all the rest of the stuff we do in our humanities departments ends up being
>> pretty good for that old bottom line.  Sometimes it worries me, mostly it
> doesn't.
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From: "Vaska Tumir" <vaska at geocities.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Subject: Re: The Gnostic Pynchon
Date: Sat, Jun 24, 2000, 4:00 PM


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>> ... yeah, I was going to point out myself that having a humanities
>> background doesn't necessarily seem to hurt one in the job market,
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>> My guess is that the theory kids COULD go into advertising if they wanted
>> to cross over to the dark side (indeed, I remember reading somewhere about
>> Brown's semiotics program as having a mainline into MTV), but, well, again,
>> one might also believe that the point of such an education is to hone a
>> certain oppositionality to such things.

From: "Dave Monroe" <monroe at mpm.edu>
To: Vaska Tumir <vaska at geocities.com>, pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: The Gnostic Pynchon
Date: Sat, Jun 24, 2000, 4:35 PM

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