ATD p. 5

[Anville Azote]

I probably won't have time to do a full re-read of ATD until the Group
Read, but I have been checking back to this passage or that.  You
know, the (cough) sex scenes (cough) and other portions which merit
repeated study.  During this stochastic resampling, I happened across
our first introduction to Pugnax, which had a feature I'm not sure I
noticed the first time around.

"He had learned with the readiness peculiar to dogs," sez Thomas, "how
with the utmost delicacy to turn pages using nose or paws, and anyone
observing him thus engaged could not help noticing the changing
expressions of his face, in particular the uncommonly articulate
eyebrows, which contributed to an overall effect of interest,
sympathy, and --- the conclusion could scarce be avoided ---
comprehension."

This calls to my mind rather forcefully the image of Gromit, from the
Wallace and Gromit claymation films.  Almost everyone I know who has
seen "A Grand Day Out", "The Wrong Trousers", "A Close Shave" or "The
Curse of the Were-Rabbit" has remarked about Gromit's expressive
eyebrows.

-A. A.