BtZ42: The Hunt

[Monte Davis]

42: "quarry"... "pack of children"... "sanctuary"
43: "nest"... "net"..."gillie"
44: "escape"... "this isn't Kenya"
45: "getting away"... "closing in"... "bolt"
46: "a fine specimen"..."to fright, to simple escape"

All the slapstick notwithstanding, this is a hunt. The next section will
end (52) with Pointsman's insistent demand for "one of your fine Foxes.
*Damn it.* One, little, *Fox*!”

Traditional English fox hunting doesn't appear explicitly in GR, but
there's Odin/Wuotan's "wild hunt", Frans Van der Groov's dodo hunt, and of
course Their hunt for Slothrop (Pointsman's ultimate Fox) as he hunts for a
special rocket -- because foxes (like feral dogs) are themselves stalkers
and predators, too. All this alongside the book's multiple and more often
discussed "quests," which overlap but aren't quite the same thing.

If GR is about people caught up in the great inescapable doom-y System...
what do we make of this first, most extended and insistent hunt being a
comedy -- and a failure?
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