AtDTDA: (8) 231-232 The Fool

[Tore Rye Andersen]

One more thing: Thelma describes The Fool as "the classic journey card." In 
most versions of the card, a dog is portrayed next to the fool, setting off 
on his journey (or arriving back home after his journey?). This, then, would 
seem to correspond to that Pynchonian motif identified in 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).
That dog appears both in GR (a red setter, for instance, is one of 
Gottfried's last things before plunging to his death in the 00000); in 
Vineland (Desmond); in M&D (The Learned English Dog who sees Mason and Dixon 
off on their journey, and who's there on their last meeting); and in AtD 
(Pugnax). Always there's a dog somewhere right at the beginning and right at 
the end. Might this motif of the kind Dog be inspired by the Tarot card The 
Fool?

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