English Majors

[Billy Genocide]

Yep, I have a BA in English from UC Berkeley. Lot 49 was required reading
in two of my classes. I read GR on my own time...

On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 11:54 AM, <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:

> **
> I read the short stories, V., GR & Lot 49 in high school, on the
> secondhand advice of a physics teacher who taught the other group. I went
> to college in the shadow of Mt Greylock, regularly played the drinking game
> they play with champagne at the Casino Hermann Goering (we played with
> beer), and scribbled a thesis on detective fiction and TRP (+ DeLillo),
> which somehow got me the degree in English. Lot 49 was on the syllabus for
> English 201, which is where I got my thesis advisor. A lot of people I knew
> had read TRP or read him in college, and not just the EMs.
> Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
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> *From: * Kris Williams <spaceace462 at gmail.com>
> *Sender: * owner-pynchon-l at waste.org
> *Date: *Sat, 29 Sep 2012 13:31:21 -0500
> *To: *Markekohut<markekohut at yahoo.com>
> *Cc: *“pynchon-l at waste.org“<pynchon-l at waste.org>; Brian Kempf<
> btkempf at gmail.com>
> *Subject: *Re: English Majors
>
> Manqué humor from an iPad.  Sign o' the times.
> On Sep 29, 2012 1:27 PM, "Markekohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> I coulda been a contender...Philosopher.
>> So I got a degree in Manqué.
>>
>> Now I am working on my Master's in Pynchon from Candlebrow U.
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On Sep 29, 2012, at 1:09 PM, Brian Kempf <btkempf at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I'm curious about how many P-listers here have degrees in English,
>> Literature, or something similar. I just transferred from a BS in Economics
>> to a BA in English at my school.
>> > I've yet to meet anyone who reads (or knows) Pynchon, so I'm curious as
>> to what those who do studied or what fields they work in.
>> >
>> > Thoughts?
>> >
>> > B
>>
>
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