Every Dog Has Its Day

[rich]

one image that I can't unfortunately shake is the recent news report
about millions of male chicks being discarded by being thrown alive
into a metal grinder since only the females are raised for eggs who
are then eventually killed for the dinner plate



On 10/26/09, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Says as much about cultural attitudes towards dogs as it does the novel...
>
> Although maybe, in this context, the kind of dog referred to was the
> Learned English/Henry James-reading kind.
>
> Off-topic: anyone read Johnathan Safran Foer's latest ("Eating Animals")?
>
> Got through it in a day and have been haunted by it since, perhaps
> more than anything in the past few years. Harrowing stuff; not without
> major flaws (of a journalistic sort) but more obscene than GR could
> ever be labelled, if only for the non-fictional aspect of the
> material.
>
> I now wish I'd never been introduced to the term "fecal mist". But I
> also now realise it's the air we breathe.
>
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:23 PM, John Carvill <johncarvill at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> >  it's  such a shame that the most recent two of P's novels have been
>> > such dogs.
>>
>> I can understand some long-term Pynchonistas not being knocked out by
>> Inherent Vice, but to not like Against the Day, to consider it a
>> 'dog'?
>
>