English majors

[Markekohut]

Amazing that so many have wanted to post on this topic. Interesting. 
What is most interesting to me about the posts, may be the tidbits of
Discovering, first reading Pynchon.

I learned of Pynchon at college age, when I was reading literary mags and periodicals
To find out about contemporary writers. Article praised P. probably before Lot 49 was in paperback so I got V. I stopped out of it, unable to get/ like/understand the perspective
On the Whole sIck crew....I thought we were to identify pretty wholly...but that scene 
Between Pig and Paoli....???

so, I didn't read Lot 49 next.....I bought a copy of Gravity's Rainbow (in hardcover! ) at
A Walden in Connecticut while on a job- interview........buried on lower rack.....not until later did I
Learn there was a simultaneous paperback which is the one I read (although later)......

Many years later, I sold that Mint copy of GR to pay for some of my son's college.....
(I think TRP would like to hear that and will be in the letter I keep writing in my head)



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