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

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<p>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.</p>
<p>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:</p>
<p>In memory of my grandfather, John Gray<br />
10/02/1920 – 14/06/2012</p>
<p><img src="https://www.martineve.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/IMG_0769-1024x768.jpg" alt="John Gray and Martin Paul Eve" title="John Gray and Martin Paul Eve" style="width:750px;" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-2130" /></p>