Foxes and Hens Cohabiting!

[Mark Kohut]

I. Never. Expected. the Fox Trot. Thread.

associated with sexiness way back...first book use of 'Fox' for a woman,
1964.

http://www.caughtbytheriver.net/2016/05/19/foxes-unearthed-an-extract-lucy-jones/

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 7:19 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> It is @1903 in Austria in this part of the novel,
> THE LOST TIME ACCIDENTS by John Wray,
> a US and an Austrian citizen, it sez on the jacket.
>
> The narrator is writing about his great-grandfather:
> "His iron-gray beard--which, in spite of his ardent Catholicism,
> demands to be described as Talmudic--was a thing of wonder
> to the local children, who tagged after him at a respectful distance,
> waiting for
> the instant when he'd stop short, glance back at them darkly, and mutter
> a rumbling "Saint Augustine protect you, little foxes," before passing out
> the caramel drops he carried in his pockets."
>
> If we can assume some solid research from this serious novelist--whom I
> have
> read before somehow because of a Pynchon comparison, I think--then perhaps
> the use of "foxes" in this way was part of a culture at the time.
>
> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 3:39 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>    1. *Alex Burns* ‏@alexburnsNYT  <https://twitter.com/alexburnsNYT> 18m18
>>    minutes ago
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>>    Alex Burns Retweeted Sopan Deb
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>>    This is like the setup for a joke from 1991
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>>    *John Schwartz* ‏@jswatz  <https://twitter.com/jswatz> 7m7 minutes ago
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>>    "We talked about foxes." @alexburnsNYT
>>    <https://twitter.com/alexburnsNYT>
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>>
>> On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 8:51 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> In Flags in the Dust, Faulkner has one of his characters mate a fox with
>>> a hound in the hopes of producing Super Hound, presumably to hunt foxes...
>>>
>>> Www.innergroovemusic.com <http://www.innergroovemusic.com>
>>>
>>> On May 16, 2016, at 5:41 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Gotta love certain universal tropes our best find and use.
>>>
>>> The Fox Was Ever the Hunter: A Novel Hardcover – Deckle Edge, May 10,
>>> 2016
>>> by Herta Müller
>>> <http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&field-author=Herta+M%C3%BCller&search-alias=books&text=Herta+M%C3%BCller&sort=relevancerank>
>>>  (Author), Philip Boehm
>>> <http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_2?ie=UTF8&field-author=Philip+Boehm&search-alias=books&text=Philip+Boehm&sort=relevancerank>
>>>  (Translator)
>>>
>>> Ms. Muller, Nobelist. Who evidently did a filmed film script with this
>>> title more than 30 years ago. Ms Muller, whose fiction is about the trauma
>>> of war, the nature of totalitarianism [Romania] and such. Ms. Muller, see
>>> below,  who was published for 40 years by Michael Naumann, who ran Holt in
>>> the US when Pynchon knew him and had Mason & Dixon published there under
>>> him......
>>>
>>>
>>> https://books.google.com/books?id=gRGRAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA146&dq=Herta+muller&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj54o2Nxt_MAhVH5SYKHb37A7o4ChDoAQgbMAA#v=onepage&q=Herta%20muller&f=false
>>>
>>> Ah, what a world.
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 5:00 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://www.trendfrenzy.net/foxy-family/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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