pynchon in the ivies

[David Morris]

Lolita was better. Seriously.  Nabokov's last works were over thought chess
games, puzzles, and not great stories.

On Sunday, December 2, 2012, Erik T. Burns wrote:

> 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.
>
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> On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 10:29 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '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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