pynchon-l-digest V2 #9197

[Bled Welder]

Holy mother of god, are you insane?  You never, never, never mention
Candlebrow U. here.  Are you fucking loonitoons?  Are you the dumbest
person here, ever?  And that's saying a lot.

Mr. Kohut will de*stroy* you.

In fact, you're as good as gone.  Mr. Kohut is going to pick you up, and
just destroy you.

I knew, I knew when I quit this idiotbox that is the dwelling of
world-class tedium that is this, that is hogged by dwarf intellects like
All Is Well In Town, that, what you do is you kinda keep an eye on it, you
don't read the stuff, but occasionally you click on something and glance at
it, why is this place populated with literary critics, as opposed to say,
interesting people, god knows, no doubt, but to get on with it, what was I
saying, oh, you, you collossal nincompoop, why did I click on you, I knew,
I just knew it, that one day this would happen, and I'd get sucked into the
abyss again....


On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Don Antenen <dantenen at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I study at Penn, and I know people doing a Gravity's Rainbow class right
> now. So there's still some Pynchon in the Ivy League...
>
> all the best,
> Don
>
> On Oct 12, 2012, at 11:32 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > On 10/12/2012 11:03 AM, Matthew Cissell wrote:
> >> It would make an interesting study to compare Wood's reading of A
> Sentime=
> ntal Education with Bourdieu's. Mr Wood is fair enough when addressing the
> f=
> ormal aspects of fiction, its mechanics if you will, but does that
> surprise a=
> nyone? He studied under Kermode, he's an Oxford chap. If we agree with his
> c=
> ategories and judgements that is likely because, to some degree, we share
> hi=
> s orthodoxy.
> >=20
> > Here's a question:  How does one account for the more conservative
> literar=
> y values associated with Oxford as compared with, say, Sussex, where
> Pynchon=
> studies seem to be going strong?  I can't remember ever hearing P's name
> me=
> ntioned in connection with Oxbridge.  Same in America with the Ivy
> League.  I=
> t can't be a class thing, because smart poor kids have be going
> everywhere  s=
> ince WWII.  It's just that tradition dies hard I suppose.  Or what?
> >=20
> > P
>
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