pynchon-l-digest V2 #4670

[Gordon, Alex]

I'd like to thank you all for your suggestions and comments, my friend now
has a wealth of material which should facilitate research enough for a few
months, if not years! The job, sadly, is probably not as exciting as you may
suspect. It's to do with marketing, would you believe.
 
Thanks again,
 
Alex

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Thomas  <http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Lovell_Beddoes> Lovell
Beddoes was a 19th-century physician who wrote Death's Jest Book, a
blank-verse drama that remains one of the weirdest pieces of literature in
English. DJB is a great read, but Beddoes is probably too obscure to be of
much use in a job interview, unless the intention is to change the subject,
as suggested by a previous post.
 
William Carlos Williams was a doctor, and his practice is explicitly
referenced in a few of his poems, and hovers in the background of many more.
 
William Burroughs writes a lot about medicine, though from an off-center
perspective. His lifelong devotion to first-person pharmaceutical
experimentation gave him a physician's expertise in the human body.
 
Julia Kristeva is a practicing psychiatrist, and much of her writing is
about the body.
 
Margaret Edson's play Wit
<http://http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0571198775/qid=1139970906/sr=2-1/re
f=pd_bbs_b_2_1/104-3786302-8668729?s=books&v=glance&n=283155>  is about a
Donne scholar dying of cancer. Most of the piece is an extended
consideration of the relationship between Metaphysical poetry and the human
body.
 
Richard
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0156004003/qid=1139971141/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bb
s_b_2_1/104-3786302-8668729?s=books&v=glance&n=283155> Selzer, a surgeon,
writes about surgery, internal organs, etc with panache. A must read.
 
Best wishes to your friend. WHAT KIND OF JOB IS THIS????


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