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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