English Majors
Kyle Simpler
ksimpler at gmail.com
Sat Sep 29 15:32:25 CDT 2012
I also have a degree in English. I'm an adjunct instructor now.
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Billy Genocide <billygenocide at gmail.com>wrote:
> 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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