Duchovny Senior Thesis
ROz
I do have something significant to say this time and its something I caught
in Entertainment Weekly again. No, nothing from Ken Tucker and his theories
on fan fiction, but it was an article about Lou Dobbs formerly of CNN (I
think) that started his own webpage called Space.com. I was dinking through
it and I found this link.
http://space.com/area51/duchovny.html
Its an article of DD's senior thesis. Someone tried selling a copy of
the 150 page thesis on Ebay, but after a week of bidding that started at $5,
there were no takers. Ouch, huh. There is, however, an excellent picture
of him on the page. ; )
ROz
PJ Moss
person had it on ebay!
BTW: Thanks for link. Its terrific for SETI-X!
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Ali P.
>the 150 page thesis on Ebay, but after a week of bidding that started at $5,
>there were no takers. Ouch, huh. There is, however, an excellent picture
>of him on the page. ; )
>
That's weird they'd write an article on that...
The folks who've been hanging out over at alt.fan.david-duchovny (AFDD) know
what kind of flames a person can get for trying to sell a copy of David's
thesis there! :o)
Most DDfans I know feel that that kind of thing is David's property and someone
shouldn't be making money off of it.
-ali
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Admarem
~Admarem, who entertains no fantasies about interfering with his private
thesis. I'm sure there's a copy of it in Princeton's library along with every
non-celeb's.
Toniann Scime
Sure is. Here's from the Princeton Theses Catalog:
http://libnt1.princeton.edu/theses/theses.asp
(14832) Duchovny, David William (1982): The Schizophrenic Critique of Pure Reason
in Beckett's Early
Novels.
TITLE: The Schizophrenic Critique of Pure Reason in Beckett's Early Novels (160
pages).
AUTHOR: David William Duchovny (1982), English Department
ADVISOR: Not available
LOCATED AT: Mudd Library.
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mercury
wrote:
> http://space.com/area51/duchovny.html
>
> Its an article of DD's senior thesis. Someone tried selling a copy of
>the 150 page thesis on Ebay, but after a week of bidding that started at $5,
>there were no takers. Ouch, huh.
Copies of his thesis have been sold on Ebay many times over the past
year. The first time someone did it it went for over 150 bucks, and
then it would get offered once every few weeks. Still, it was getting
90-100 dollars with each offering. It seems people have either caught
on to the total illegality of this, or the questionable ethics of it,
or the market's just been saturated and everyone who wanted one got
one. But trust me, the first person who got smart and went to the
library to make copies to sell made a small fortune. One would hope
he/she got hit hard by Princeton lawyers, but somehow I doubt it. The
whole thing is disgusting, in my book.
M.
Admarem
Thanks! :) I could have researched it myself, I suppose, but my silly computer
freezes if I approach the web.
~A.
Kipler
found Duchovny's thesis in the library. She photocopied it. All I remember is
one particular line. He had typed something about "one can {insert literary
gobbledygook here that I didn't understand and don't remember". And then he
typed, "One can, and one does."
At least, that's the way I remember it. 'Twas a notably dull piece - though I
reckon most of these things are similarly dull.
--Kipler
Admarem
gobbledygook here that I didn't understand and don't remember". And then he
typed, "One can, and one does.">>
Hee hee. One can, and one does. Sounds like dear old David finished his thesis
at 4 in the morning...the only time such phraseology is acceptable. (still
meaningless and pretentious -- but acceptable)
~A. :)
Ali P.
>At least, that's the way I remember it. 'Twas a notably dull piece - though
>I
>reckon most of these things are similarly dull.
I've read most of it, and I've got to say that it's really not dull if you
forget the subject matter and concentrate on the WAY David phrases things.
He's got a very unique voice.
Whenever anyone brings up the thesis, I always end up quoting the same passage.
I can't help it, there's a lot of really memorable lines in this thing, but
this is my favorite:
"...The Beckettian 'waiter', resigned to his lonely vigil, decomposing limb by
limb, symbolizes in concreto nothing less that the spiritual state of modern
man. This is modern everyman stripped of proud social convention, naked in
ridiculous impotence before his possessions -- the machines of industry, the
machine of the body, and the obsessively logical machine of the mind. Nothing
for the mass of alienated to do but persevere toward the reward for
perseverence: death. While you rot, you might as well tell jokes, make up
stories, lie down in a warm ditch to make yourself more comfortable in the
absent God's waiting room...."
Yeesh, talk about a metaphor. <g>
Oh! <squeal> This is good, too:
"Like a trained parrot, Murphy desperately consoles himself with the
well-learned laws of psychic existence. But Freud is not God, and no crackes
will fall from heaven to save this stuttering polly."
Ack! I just realized this discussion is in ATXC. OT, anyone? :o)
-Ali
Teddi Litman
with numerous other student thesis, for people to read it. The problem is a few
people
are actually making a profit from it. If it bothered DD, all he'd really have to
do
would be to either run off a hundred copies or put it on a free web site and
that would end the profits right there.
Teddi
Weird Sister wrote:
> Maybe it makes me a bad person, but I'd love to have a copy. Samuel Beckett
> and DD...can't get much better than that. :)
>
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> In the alien light of the spaceship of love, I need
> David Duchovny hovering above me. --Bree Sharp