English Majors

[John Bailey]

BA in cinema & english, MA in cultural studies, aborted PhD.

Lot 49 was a prescribed text in my first year of uni - I'm reasonably
confident I have never met another person who has read any Pynchon
beyond that. He has almost no presence in Australia, and isn't even
namedropped in the usual way by those who haven't read him (eg as
challenging/reclusive/pomo etc).

On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Michael Fonash <mff8785 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Graduated with undergrad in English/Secondary Ed. Certificate. Read
> CoL 49 in Contermporary Lit class.  However, it was all drop in the
> bucket after my The German Idealism course I snuck into during my
> Freshman year.
>
> Mike
>
> On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> No college degree. Studied music and dropped out to "go pro",
>> haha...Discovered GR on the bottom rack of B. Dalton's in a mall.
>>
>> On Sep 29, 2012 6:39 PM, "Jamie Collinson" <jamie at bigdada.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>> Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
>>>> ________________________________
>>>> 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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