NP really, but maybe. But if I am right

[Monte Davis]

He couldn't have seriously wanted to be an engineer because..?

 

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It's hard to believe Pynchon ever seriously wanted to be an engineer.  Fall
back option?

On Wednesday, May 8, 2013, wrote:

OK, have your fun. You guys caught me in my cups. I guess I shouldn't mix
Gnossos and Trebbiano. But despite his chauvanism and decidedly politically
incorrect approach to campus life, I get a kick out of Gnossos, and BDSL
brings to my mind some things to consider. First of all, it was a shrewd
move of Pynchon to dedicate GR to Farina. It saved him the trouble of
answering for all his theft- and I mean low and highway robbery- of Farina's
style, technique and thematic angles- everything from the frat rush dinner
to the use of actual mathematical equations in the text, to name but a few.

 

Which, secondly, brings to mind another thing- when exactly did Pynchon
switch from engineering to literature at Cornell? That had to be something
which he discussed with Farina, who apparently made a similar move. (I'm not
sure if Farina actually switched or just dropped out.) The whole tension
between Science and the Humanities is more or less manifested in Gnossos.
Imagine, for example, if Gnossos had been a Lit major- wouldn't that have
been exciting? His math/science skill, yet familiarity with lit, gives him a
certain credibility as a critic of the status quo that would not be the case
if he were just another English major, or, is that wrong? 

 

 

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My favorite is the last paragraph. Gotta get me some Trebbiano...well, gotta
get me a job. 

 

P.

 

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Yea. I'm not sure what I was thinking. It seemed to make sense at the time. 

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This is quite a sentence -- apologizing for sounding pompous, then roaring
off on a roll of pomposity.

 [Sorry if I'm sounding pompous- too much Trebbiano, and the rest of the
Mediterranean diet, sans the fish, chicken and cheese, for me, of course,
but even with that, it really is good for you! I encourage all P--listers to
make a move in that direction] And given its Greeky-ness, I'd have to say:
Mentor, or better, Mentor/Athena.

 

 

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