English Majors

[Keith Davis]

balls aren't all they're cracked up to be...neither is boheme...

On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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