VLVL2 Preliminary: The Epigraph

[Dave Monroe]

I printed this one up and everything, off to a flying
start, thanks!  In the meantime, stumbled on this ...

http://www.vinelande.de/vinelande/dogs/dogsfrtl.htm

http://www.vinelande.de/

For the record (no puns where ...), Let's Active also
had an "Every Dog Has His Day," ca. 1988.  And those
the same Jazz Crusaders what did "Ooga-Boo-Ga-Loo" b/w
"Eleanor Rigby"?  Have the 45, at least ...

http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/verve/artist.asp?aid=2690

http://www.geocities.com/WallStreet/Bureau/2058/crusaders/live_at_the_lighthouse_68.html

--- Toby G Levy <tobylevy at juno.com> wrote:
>
> "Every dog has his day,
> and a good dog
> just might have two days.
>         -- Johnny Copeland"
> 
> Johnny Copeland was born in 1937, six weeks before
> Thomas Pynchon....

And see as well ...

> "According to the medieval Dutch scholar ..."

http://phrases.shu.ac.uk/bulletin_board/19/messages/1172.html

But note also ...

cyn·ic
'si-nik
noun
Middle French or Latin, Middle French cynique, from
Latin cynicus, from
Greek kynikos, literally, like a dog, from kyn-, kyOn
dog -- more at
HOUND
1545
1 capitalized : an adherent of an ancient Greek school
of philosophers
who held the view that virtue is the only good and
that its essence lies
in self-control and independence
2 : a faultfinding captious critic; especially : one
who believes that
human conduct is motivated wholly by self-interest

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0110&msg=60342&sort=date

And this I think might be on the right path ...

> The wrinkle that Johnny Copeland adds to the saying
> is that there is a POSSIBILITY that a GOOD dog may
> get a second day in the sun.  Many of the characters
> in Vineland are Sixties refugees searching for a new
> opportunity to re-shine in the Eighties."

Also think Vineland's Thirties subtexts and the
novel's own contexts of production, publication ...

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