English Majors

[Charles Albert]

BA 19th Century Russian Studies......was fascinated by the cover of a book
I saw someone reading on a DC bus ....turned out to be V.....until I found
the P-list back in the 90s, the only other person I knew who had read GR
cover to cover was my dad (on my recommendation - one of only 2 or 3 things
we ever agreed on)

didn't have the balls to go boheme, sold out and got an MBA......

love,

cfa

On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 8:22 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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