pynchon in the ivies

[Erik T. Burns]

I went to Williams.

I had read TRP before but my Eng 201 class featured TCOL49 as well as Pale
Fire, and the prof was a fan of Pynchon, Gaddis & Nabokov, plus a bunch of
others. I may be one of the few people who read Pale Fire before Lolita,
and find myself a better man for it.

It just made GR all the better for me when I learned that Mount Greylock
was a real place, much given to ghosts, and that, as I have so often
mentioned, "Wales Tales" is a real drinking game that you can play with
your friends & enemies.





On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 10:29 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> That's ambitious!  Not the reading, but the teaching.
>
>
> On Saturday, December 1, 2012, Joseph Tracy wrote:
>
>> 2 years ago I saw a Williams College student in a local cafe reading
>> Gravity's Rainbow and asked her if it was for a class. She responded with
>> clear enthusiasm that it was.
>> On Nov 28, 2012, at 9:24 PM, Don Antenen wrote:
>>
>> > There was a discussion a few weeks ago about Pynchon not being taught
>> at the Ivies anymore. This is the Penn class I mentioned:
>> http://www.english.upenn.edu/Courses/Undergraduate/2012/Fall/ENGL364.301
>> >
>> > Sounds fun (the kids I know taking it think so too), but GR ought to
>> deserve a class all its own.
>> >
>> > all the best,
>> > Don
>>
>>
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