ATD: cover: "seal"

[Tore Rye Andersen]

>From: "Ya Sam" <takoitov at hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: ATD: cover: "seal"
>
>Snow Lions
>[...]
>Tibetan legend has it that Snow Lions protected the Buddha. They normally 
>took the form of
>two dogs next to him, but when danger appeared they grew long manes and
>turned into lions to protect the Buddha and keep him safe from harm. They
>are the proud symbol of Tibet and two of them can be seen on the Tibetan
>flag.

Aha - I wonder whether these two dogs (Snow Lions in disguise: what a great 
concept) might together constitute AtD's equivalent to what was introduced 
GR as "the kind Dog, the Dog no man ever conditioned, who is there for us at 
beginnings and ends, and journeys we have to take, helpless, but not quite 
unwilling" (GR, 655); what reappeared in Vineland as Desmond (who was really 
right there on the first and last page, as well as in the epigraph: "Every 
dog has his day, and a good dog just might have two days"; and what popped 
up in M&D in the shape of the Learned English Dog, who saw Mason & Dixon off 
on their journey, and who was there for them at their last meeting. Deep 
questions, and disturbing ones...

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