Misc. on AtD, Pynchon's oeuvre, etc.

[Mark Kohut]

1) Yes, did forget the specifics of the wild dogs in D. C. sentences/scene and was too
  lazy to look it up....
  2) I was driving at the difference between insiders' interests, ne'er so well-expresed as you did, and the rest of the populace..
  3) Still thinking on all the figurations of Pugnax, so to speak, but dogs are "man's best friend' in P's work and surely they co-exist  with 'the rest of the populace' in ways not meant by  the phrase "'washington insiders"?.....
   
  4) P's specified dogs are never wild---except in this satiric slam usage. So, one might also argue that the dogs are wild in D.C. 'cause they do not live with families [Vineland] or good-deed doing groups. Cause D.C.'s insiders ain't that................................. 

Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
  > But the Chums adopting Pugnax, as later they adopted
> Chick Counterfly and perhaps Prance...
> perhaps does have some significance (he said boldly)
>

and perhaps that is what you were driving at, Mark:
the Beltway insiders have affinity groups and interests
(financial and intellectual) vastly other than the
populace of which they are the so-called leaders?

does Pugnax hopping aboard with the Chums figure
(not symbolize (-; - I just don't feel symbolic today))
the militant attention of the populace -
a force that governments either direct or are toppled by?


       
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