<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:17.5px;line-height:28px">"Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes." SofS 2:15</span><br><div><br></div><div>Tallulah Bankhead very foxy lady</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 6:18 PM, Mark Kohut <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark.kohut@gmail.com" target="_blank">mark.kohut@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I. Never. Expected. the Fox Trot. Thread. <div><br></div><div>associated with sexiness way back...first book use of 'Fox' for a woman, 1964. <br><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.caughtbytheriver.net/2016/05/19/foxes-unearthed-an-extract-lucy-jones/" target="_blank">http://www.caughtbytheriver.net/2016/05/19/foxes-unearthed-an-extract-lucy-jones/</a><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 7:19 AM, Mark Kohut <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark.kohut@gmail.com" target="_blank">mark.kohut@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">It is @1903 in Austria in this part of the novel, <div>THE LOST TIME ACCIDENTS by John Wray,</div><div>a US and an Austrian citizen, it sez on the jacket.</div><div><br></div><div>The narrator is writing about his great-grandfather: </div><div>"His iron-gray beard--which, in spite of his ardent Catholicism,</div><div>demands to be described as Talmudic--was a thing of wonder </div><div>to the local children, who tagged after him at a respectful distance, waiting for</div><div>the instant when he'd stop short, glance back at them darkly, and mutter</div><div>a rumbling "Saint Augustine protect you, little foxes," before passing out</div><div>the caramel drops he carried in his pockets." </div><div><br></div><div>If we can assume some solid research from this serious novelist--whom I have</div><div>read before somehow because of a Pynchon comparison, I think--then perhaps</div><div>the use of "foxes" in this way was part of a culture at the time. </div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 3:39 PM, Mark Kohut <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark.kohut@gmail.com" target="_blank">mark.kohut@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><ol style="margin:0px;list-style:none;padding:0px;color:rgb(41,47,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li style="line-height:inherit;border-left-width:0px;border-right-width:0px"><div style="min-height:51px;padding:9px 12px 6px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-right-width:0px"><div style="margin-left:58px"><div style="line-height:16px"><a href="https://twitter.com/alexburnsNYT" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(136,153,166);text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><strong style="color:rgb(41,47,51)">Alex Burns</strong> ‏<span style="font-size:13px;direction:ltr"><span style="color:rgb(177,187,195)">@</span>alexburnsNYT</span> </a><small style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(136,153,166)"> <a href="https://twitter.com/alexburnsNYT/status/733014461611675650" title="2:20 PM - 18 May 2016" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(136,153,166);text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span>18m</span><span style="overflow:hidden!important;width:1px!important;min-height:1px!important;padding:0px!important;border:0px!important">18 minutes ago</span></a></small></div><p style="margin:0px;word-wrap:break-word;overflow:hidden!important;width:1px!important;min-height:1px!important;padding:0px!important;border:0px!important">Alex Burns Retweeted Sopan Deb</p><div><p lang="en" style="margin:0px;line-height:18px;white-space:pre-wrap;word-wrap:break-word">This is like the setup for a joke from 1991</p></div><p style="margin:0px;word-wrap:break-word;overflow:hidden!important;width:1px!important;min-height:1px!important;padding:0px!important;border:0px!important">Alex Burns added,</p><div style="border:1px solid rgb(225,232,237);border-top-left-radius:4px;border-top-right-radius:4px;border-bottom-right-radius:4px;border-bottom-left-radius:4px;margin-top:12px"><div><a href="https://twitter.com/SopanDeb/status/733014143167520768" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,132,180);text-decoration:none;min-height:126px;width:504px" target="_blank"></a><div href="http:///SopanDeb/status/733014143167520768" style="padding:12px"><div><div style="overflow:hidden;vertical-align:top;min-height:102px;width:102px;margin-right:12px;float:left"><div style="min-height:102px;width:102px"><div style="min-height:102px;width:102px"><img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/ext_tw_video_thumb/7330129516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