English Majors

[Kris Williams]

Hey, now...them's fightin' words...Mccarthy is still kicking...
On Sep 30, 2012 9:42 AM, "Toby Levy" <tobyglevy at gmail.com> wrote:

> I started college in 1965 thinking I wanted to be a journalism major.  I
> read the only Pynchon novel at that time on my own as a freshman.  Then I
> went to a bookstore over the summer and got Lot 49. I dropped out of school
> for a year and came back as an English Major. Then I got drafted and
> afterwards returned to school.  When I was a senior Gravity's Rainbow was
> published.  I caught a lot of flack from professors and other students at a
> wine and cheese party in the English department when I stated with
> considerable force that Pynchon was the only living American author worth
> studying.  I'm sure most if not all of them had not even heard of Pynchon
> back then. Well I got my English degree and worked in Civil Service for 30
> years and am now retired.
>
> Toby
>
> PS: I STILL think P is the only living American author worth studying in
> college!
>
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