TRP and American Civil War

[Donald Antenen]

It's pretty 'don't ask don't tell' with wealthy international students.

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 7:35 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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