the Art Question of PG

[Mark Kohut]

Rereading, taking notes, trying to make connections for AtD.......again, still, more fully...'that literary elephant in the room', as JC puts it...

A...and this occured to me as another sliver of a take on TRP and art, at least 'literary' art forms, as expressed in ATD.

Pugnax, voracious reader, prefers 'sentimental' tales ...not those exhibiting 'extremes of human behavior".....

Dog are (almost) us in TRP's world, so Pugnax is representative of the heavy-reading middle-class?....and 'sentimental' tales are 

most socially realist--not extremes---fictions? Those kind of 'round' character fictions of people in society and relationships that, say, James Wood speaks so insightfully of, as we've talked of, as he 'overrates' for the time of his time while dissing or ignoring many writers---like TRP---
much more full of extremes of human bahavior than he seems to like. 

This is a question.