James goes to the dogs

[Michael Bailey]

Doug Millison wrote:

> If as if the Petillon passage Dave Monroe so helpfully provides might
> suggest, Pynchon takes to heart James' method, perhaps via Pugnax he's
> looking lovingly into his Master's gaze.  Or maybe not.  As TRP say, which
> do you want it to be?
>
>

thanks for the calm words, Doug.

what I want today - it's Wednesday, right? - is for Pugnax to convey
the "fighting spirit"
attached to groups such as the Chums, and how when not actively
engaged in combat, he is able
to "mellow out" with a good book, just as the Plato character does in
Beetle Bailey.

also just had a stray thought about how the Chums might be considered
a D&Gian "nomadic war machine"
and OBA ringing his humanistic changes on that theme

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