AtDTDA: (8) 231-232 The Fool

dmugmon at comcast.net dmugmon at comcast.net
Fri May 11 22:01:29 CDT 2007


GR, Part 3, In the Zone

Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas any more....

- Dorothy, arriving in Oz


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From: robinlandseadel at comcast.net 

> Tore: 
> 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? 
> 
> 
> Fool that I am, the thought never crossed my mind. Brilliant, Tore! 
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