Rosebud

Scott Wyant scott_wyant at loop.com
Thu Jan 16 17:14:07 CST 1997


>At 04:31 PM 1/16/97 -0600, you wrote:
>>On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Scott Wyant wrote:
>>
>> "Love in the Ruins," by Walker Percy, features a neighbor's dog (Samoyed, 
>>  I believe) whom the protagonist nicknames "Rosebud" because of his (the
>>  dog's) rosy aspect from abaft.
>>
>>	Scott --
>>	Do you mean the "orange-colored brute with a spitz face and a
>>plume of a tail which curves over his back exposing a large convoluted
>>anus"?  THAT Rosebud appears in Percy's THE MOVIEGOER.
>>
>>			Andrew Walser
>>			University of Illinois-Chicago
>>

Um, well I, um, yes.  That's the very dog I meant. 

Man, my memory is going.  Thanks.


Scott Wyant
scott_wyant at loop.com




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