English Majors

[Jamie Collinson]

I have a BA in English from King's College London, where Crying of Lot 49 was required reading, as for Billy below


On 29 Sep 2012, at 21:16, Billy Genocide 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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