BtZ42 48-54: Foxes once more

[ish mailian]

And don't forget hart.
https://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0103&msg=53751&keywords=hunt%20hart


On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 11:17 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Fox and Hounds, or Fox and Geese, or Fox and Dogs, or Wolf and Sheep, or
> Hounds and Hare, or Devil and Tailors. There might be even more alternate
> names."
>
> http://www.wikihow.com/Play-Foxes-and-Hounds
>
> http://allaboutfunandgames.com/vintage-1948-game-of-fox-and-hounds-by-parker-brothers
>
> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> SPOILERS (if that matters to you)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ***
>>
>> I like Laura's brown fox and lazy dog, but GR is going to recycle both in
>> more complex configurations than just Slothrop vs lab dogs... not least
>> because, as noted before, both dogs and foxes can appear as prey or
>> predators depending on context (remember Mike Jing's recent query about the
>> imagined "personal Rockets" that will track each of us like hounds).
>>
>> A few of the later fox references that seem especially salient (Viking
>> edition pagination):
>>
>> 53.30
>> the snow tracked over by foxes, rabbits, long‑lost dogs, and winter birds
>> but no humans.
>>
>> 58.28
>> A skulk of foxes, a cowardice of curs are tonight’s traffic whispering in
>> the yards and lanes.
>>
>> 131.19
>> The true king only dies a mock death. Remember. Any number of young men
>> may be selected to die in his place while the real king, foxy old bastard,
>> goes on.
>>
>> 138.19 They gather, thicker as the days pass, English ghosts, so many
>> jostling in the nights, memories unloosening into the winter, seeds that
>> will never take hold, so lost, now only an every-so-often word, a clue for
>> the living—”Foxes,” calls SpectroE across astral spaces, the word intended
>> for Mr. Pointsman who is not present, who won’t be told because the few Psi
>> Section who’re there to hear it get cryptic debris of this sort every
>> sitting—if recorded at all it finds its way into Milton Gloaming’s
>> word-counting project—“Foxes,” a buzzing echo on the afternoon, Carroll
>> Eventyr, “The White Visitation”’s resident medium, curls thickly tightened
>> across his head, speaking the word “Foxes,” out of very red, thin lips
>>
>> 242.24
>> [General Wivern:] “Slothrop, there are no ‘SG’ documents.”
>> First impulse is to rattle the parts list in the man’s face, but today he
>>  is the shrewd Yankee foxing the redcoats.
>>
>> 450.16 [re the facilities of the toiletship Rucksichtslos]
>> “Crew morale,” whispered the foxes at the Ministry meetings, “sailors’
>> superstitions. Mirrors at high midnight. We know, don’t we?”
>>
>>             The officers’ latrines, by contrast, are done in red velvet.
>> The decor is 1930s Safety Manual. That is, all over the walls,
>> photograffiti, are pictures of Horrible Disasters in German Naval History.
>> Collisions, magazine explosions, U-boat sinkings, just the thing if you’re
>> an officer trying to take a shit. The Foxes have been busy. Commanding
>> officers get whole suites, private shower or sunken bathtub...
>>
>>
>>
>
>
-
Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l