TRP and American Civil War
David Morris
fqmorris at gmail.com
Fri Mar 31 18:35:41 CDT 2017
MD's importance historically as precursor to the Civil War would the most
obvious link. Dixon's fight with the slave driver is both dramatic and
documented.
If I were you, my concern would be the plausibility of your client's
familiarity with Pynchon'.
David Morris
On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 6:23 PM Donald Antenen <dantenen at sas.upenn.edu>
wrote:
> The thing that comes to mind is the story of the Confederate ship captain
> in Crying of Lot 49.
>
> all the best,
> Donald
>
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 6:53 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I'd scold you for your transgressions against academic ethics, but
> that happens to be one of the ways I earned my drinking budget
> throughout my five year university career, and also one of the ways I
> softened my post-layoff landing in 2012,
>
> My bet is that there's lots of great Civil War related stuff--more
> particularly immediate aftermath, Reconstruction, the Square Deal
> reaction to that era's Robber Barons, etc--to be found in Against the
> Day, but I have yet to read it, so...
>
> Jerky
>
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 6:06 PM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Soliciting recommendations for Pynchon-related lines of inquiry into the
> > AmCivWar.
> >
> > I find myself in the position of making a living by doing the homework
> of a
> > friend of mine--heir to a huge aluminum fortune in Saudi Arabia,
> ostensibly
> > taking classes at a city college but really just enjoying the pleasures
> of a
> > major 2017 metropolis. He is taking a class on the Civil War. There is a
> > research paper involved. You get to pick the topic. If I can combine it
> with
> > some Pynchon reading that'd be cool.
> >
> > Can't think of any obvious Pynchon digressions into Civil War type stuff
> off
> > the top of my head, assume there must be some.
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