Submitted my Ph.D! (in memory of my grandfather, John Gray [10/02/1920 - 14/06/2012])

Originally published on eve.gd on 28 June 2012.

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A quick post to mark a milestone in my academic road. Today I submitted my Ph.D. thesis to the University of Sussex entitled "Hostility or Tolerance? Philosophy, polyphony and the works of Thomas Pynchon". The project has taken me 2 years and 8 months to date.

On the day that the thesis went off to the printer, however, my grandfather, John Arthur William Gray, sadly passed away at age 92. I managed to retrieve the document from the printer before it was printed and insert a dedication, which I'd like to repeat here for posterity:

In memory of my grandfather, John Gray

10/02/1920 – 14/06/2012