AtDDtA1: Pugnax

[Tore Rye Andersen]

Back in November, before actually reading the damn book, I speculated 
whether the snow lion on the seal might:

"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."

For the full post, see:
http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0611&msg=109677&sort=date

As you can read in the original post, snow lions often appear in pairs, in 
the guise of dogs, and whaddaya know: AtD does have its kind dog in the 
beginning and end. In the beginning of the book, Pugnax appears alone, but 
in the end of the novel, right there on p. 1085, he's got company: the 
lovely dog Ksenija. So we have dogs in the beginning and end, just like in 
GR, Vineland, and M&D, but the dogs in the end of AtD might actually be snow 
lions in disguise!

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