<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default">SPOILERS (if that matters to you)</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">***</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">I like Laura's brown fox and lazy dog, but GR is going to recycle both in more complex configurations than just Slothrop vs lab dogs... not least because, as noted before, both dogs and foxes can appear as prey or predators depending on context (remember Mike Jing's recent query about the imagined "personal Rockets" that will track each of us like hounds).</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">A few of the later fox references that seem especially salient (Viking edition pagination):</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">53.30</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">the
snow tracked over by foxes, rabbits, long‑lost dogs, and winter birds but no
humans.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">58.28</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">A
skulk of foxes, a cowardice of curs are tonight’s traffic whispering in the
yards and lanes.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">131.19</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The
true king only dies a mock death. Remember. Any number of young men may be
selected to die in his place while the real king, foxy old bastard, goes on. <br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">138.19 <span style="line-height:110%">They gather, thicker as the days pass, English
ghosts, so many jostling in the nights, memories unloosening into the winter,
seeds that will never take hold, so lost, now only an every-so-often word, a
clue for the living—â€Foxes,†calls SpectroE across astral spaces, the word
intended for Mr. Pointsman who is not present, who won’t be told because the
few Psi Section who’re there to hear it get cryptic debris of this sort every
sitting—if recorded at all it finds its way into Milton Gloaming’s word-counting
project—“Foxes,†a buzzing echo on the afternoon, Carroll Eventyr, “The White
Visitationâ€â€™s resident medium, curls thickly tightened across his head,
speaking the word “Foxes,†out of very red, thin </span>lips</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">242.24</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">[General Wivern:] “Slothrop, there are no ‘SG’ documents.â€</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">First impulse is to rattle the parts list in the man’s face, but today he</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> is the shrewd Yankee foxing the redcoats. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">450.16 [re the facilities of the toiletship Rucksichtslos]</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:110%">“Crew morale,†whispered the foxes at the Ministry
meetings, “sailors’ superstitions. Mirrors at </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:110%">high midnight. We know, don’t we?â€</span></div><div class="gmail_default">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:110%"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:110%">Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The
officers’ latrines, by contrast, are done in red velvet. The decor is 1930s
Safety Manual. That is, all over the walls, photograffiti, are pictures of
Horrible Disasters in German Naval History. Collisions, magazine explosions,
U-boat sinkings, just the thing if you’re an officer trying to take a shit. The
Foxes have been busy. Commanding officers get </span><span style="line-height:normal">whole suites, private shower or sunken bathtub...</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:110%"><span style="line-height:normal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></div></div>