profession

[Peter E. Zelz]

CFO of a private high school.  In a previous life, I did electronic
intelligence work in the Navy.  Rode a lot of ships and boats (Navy people
will know the difference).  Getting ready for a submarine trip always
involved procuring lots of stuff to read; generally the thicker, the
better.  Stumbled across a copy of GR in the Stars & Stripes bookstore in
Naples, Italy.  At that point, I'd never heard of Pynchon.  It was thick
enough to make the grade, and the jacket blurb made it sound suitably
distracting.  Been crazy about our Pynch ever since.

z