ATD: cover: "seal"

[David Morris]

Fu dogs/lions are always in male/female pairs.  The male has under its
paw a globe, and the female a subdued puppy.  They also guard building
entrances.

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On 11/1/06, Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >Snow Lions
> >[...]
> >Tibetan legend has it that Snow Lions protected the Buddha. They normally took the form of two dogs next to him
>
> 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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