MDMD(Part1) Who is Thomas Pynchon?

[Scott Badger]

Peter Mead wrote:

>         When the Dog ponders ways of ignoring this pure Edge of blood-love, I
> saw it as the attempt to stay above his given (canine) nature.  A dog
> would normally answer the call of the wild with so much blood flying
> around.  Just so with Cherrycoke's hanging.  It pushed him beyond his
> nature, so he could act or witness or recount praeternaturally.

I agree, but is the true nature of Dog that of the wolf, from whence all
dogs came, or man, in whose image (and by whose hand) dogs have been
created?  Are *we* flesh or soul, and, further, what trick must we learn
(hopefully, one less improbable than a dog learning to speak) to shed
our collar?

Scott Badger