TRP and American Civil War

[John Bailey]

Make sure to seed in Bleeding Edge's references to Mid-East politics of
course.
But seriously, like DM said your primary text will probably be M&D. The
line of the title divided north and south and the boys at one point note
that slavery is the one thing that has been a constant throughout their
adventures. Someone has probably written a paper on how M&D is actually a
prehistory of the Civil War.

On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 10:39 AM, Donald Antenen <dantenen at sas.upenn.edu>
wrote:

> 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.
>>> -
>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
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