Cynic/Dog

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

In something I just re-posted,  I just ran across:

         The precise source of the term “Cynic” is, 
         however, less important than the wholehearted 
         appropriation of it. The first Cynics, beginning 
         most clearly with Diogenes of Sinope, embraced 
         their title: they barked at those who displeased 
         them, spurned Athenian etiquette, and lived from 
         nature. In other words, what may have originated 
         as a disparaging label became the designation of 
         a philosophical vocation.

http://tinyurl.com/2cpuvy

And I remember the hallowed place Dogs have in TRPV's [1]
writings. . . .

. . . .what hallowed skein of Dogs. . . .

1. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the fifth. Not to be confused
with the KJV or KJRV, which is neither close nor a pickle.