AtDtDA23: A Sot of French Ladies' Lapdog

[Mark Kohut]

Couple Obs. 
Remember the woman with dog in GR--and what they did? 

One of the most famous lapdogs in literature is in the title of Chekhov's 'Lady With a Lapdog".  In that story a married man given
to philandering has another conquest, a lovely Russian woman with a lapdog. I cannot remember whether she too was married--I do not think so---
so it is either single of double adultery. This time, however, he actually falls in love. But he is indissolubly married so now he/they have to suffer
the inability to be happy together. 

And, in stereotypical association, French ladies, more than most other country's ladies are often bored and sexually unfulfilled and, we are to believe
from much literature anyway--starting with Madame Bovary if not earlier with other books I do not know,---often adulterous in order to be sexually fulfilled. 

In this sex-filled chapter, who knows the associations, eh?

And speaking of sex, there is Ruperta.......perverted or liberated?

Mark
 




Now I suppose this was noted elsewhere, but doesn't this whole episode have more than a touch to do with "the great beast'?
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From: "Dave Monroe" <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> "'What kind of a dog's that?' he asked Ruperta at one point.
>    "'Mouffette?  She's a papillon ... a sort of French ladies'
> lapdog.'" (AtD, Pt. III, p. 665)
> 
> 
> Mouffette
> 
> French: Skunk.
> 
> 
> papillon
> 
> French: Butterfly.
> 
> Any of a breed of small dog related to the spaniel, having a long
> silky coat, a bushy tail that curves over its back, and large ears
> shaped like the wings of a butterfly
> 
> http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_644-677#Page_665
> 
> 
> "a sort of French ladies' lapdog"
> 
> Butterfly strap-on vibrator is a clitoral sex toy featuring a
> vibrating body in the shape of a butterfly and straps attached to it
> for wearing on the waist and thighs. The name of the vibrator was
> taken from the shape of a butterfly with wings providing the
> stimulation of clitoris and labia....
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_vibrator
> 
> 
> "a French 'lap' dog!"
> 
> Main Entry: lap
> Pronunciation: \ˈlap\
> Function: noun
> Etymology: Middle English lappe, from Old English læppa; akin to Old
> High German lappa flap
> Date: before 12th century
> 1 a: a loose overlapping or hanging panel or flap especially of a
> garment barchaic : the skirt of a coat or dress
> 2 a: the clothing that lies on the knees, thighs, and lower part of
> the trunk when one sits b: the front part of the lower trunk and
> thighs of a seated person ...
> 
> Main Entry: lap
> Function: verb
> Inflected Form(s): lapped; lap·ping
> Etymology: Middle English, from Old English lapian; akin to Old High
> German laffan to lick, Latin lambere, Greek laphyssein to devour
> Date: before 12th century
> intransitive verb
> 1: to take in food or drink with the tongue
> 2 a: to make a gentle intermittent splashing sound b: to move in
> little waves : wash
> transitive verb
> 1 a: to take in (food or drink) with the tongue b: to take in or
> absorb eagerly or quickly —used with up<the crowd lapped up every word
> he said>
> 2: to flow or splash against in little waves ...
> 
> http://m-w.com/dictionary
> 
> 
> "'A-and--'"
> 
> Cf. ...
> 
> http://books.google.com/books?id=iPDGp7VT8H8C
> 
> 
> "'Oboy, oboy'"
> 
> Cf. ...
> 
> "'Oboy, oboy.'" (GR, Pt. II, p. 333)
> 
> http://books.google.com/books?id=iPDGp7VT8H8C&pg=PA199&dq=gravity%27s+rainbow+%2
> 2a-and%22&sig=KeI_TGuEGZRXldlxVExE_7V5Cgk#PPA333,M1
> 
> 
> "'yaahhgghh!'"
> 
> Anybody cataloguing these?  Oh, Mr. Ware ...
> 
> 
> "Reader, she bit him"
> 
> Cf. ...
> 
> "Reader, she married him."
> 
> Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847)
> 
> http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1260
> http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0142437204
> http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0192839659
> http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/bronte/cbronte/eyreov.html
> 
> N.B.--this episode occurs from p. 665 to p. 667, mostly on p. 666 ...
>


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