Cynic/Dog

[James Kyllo]

Puts me in mind of the rather fine Machado de Assis novel "Philosopher or Dog?"

http://www.bloomsbury.com/BookCatalog/ProductItem.asp?S=&sku=774131

On Nov 27, 2007 4:45 PM,  <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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.
>



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