ATD p. 5

[David Casseres]

You're onto something there.  When my repeated readings finally reduce
the AtD dust cover to shreds, I'll replace it with one that reads
"Electronics for Dogs."

On 12/6/06, Anville Azote <anville.azote at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>