Pynchon & dogs 'R us

[Mark Kohut]

Pugnax is as human as any Chum, P assumes without a word. He reads!  
He can read the complex James......

This early in AtD, I suggest Pugnax is more "mature" even than the adolescents who are the Chums....

> Given how much Pynchon seems to like
> dogs, I'd say he's paying HJ a compliment.
> 
> Laura
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Doug Millison <dougmillison at comcast.net>
> 
> >Separately, on a topic I noticed in a recent digest, I
> suggest that  
> >Pynchon, in putting a novel by Henry James in the hands
> of a canine  
> >reader, seems to be making a point about that author,
> or his art, or  
> >both.  It doesn't feel to me like an altogether
> flattering picture of  
> >James, but the dog's cool ;)
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