Augustan dogs

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

Probably lots of folks will know this, but I think (thought I was sure
 but now amn't) the Great Man is here
 referring to his cat, not a dog.  It may be something Kinbote quotes
 in PALE FIRE?  Definitely V.N. but can't recall
where exactly.

john m
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Andrew and Johnson:

> it does not Nabokov have some allusion to Johnson (or is it
>Pope) re a dog called Hodge, where he has the great man (whichever of
>the two it is) recalling how certain dogs were rounded up and killed
>and stating `No Sir, Hodge shall not be shot' or some such. Is the LED
>wrapped up in some C18th/20th literary triangle between Pynch, his old
>tutor and Uncle Sam? (beats being wrapped in a Palm leaf, anyway).