Foxes and Hens Cohabiting!

[Paul Mackin]

"Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines
have tender grapes." SofS 2:15

Tallulah Bankhead very foxy lady

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 6:18 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>>    <https://twitter.com/alexburnsNYT/status/733014461611675650>
>>>
>>>    Alex Burns Retweeted Sopan Deb
>>>
>>>    This is like the setup for a joke from 1991
>>>
>>>    Alex Burns added,
>>>    <https://twitter.com/SopanDeb/status/733014143167520768>
>>>    0:20
>>>    *Sopan Deb* @SopanDeb
>>>    Trump arriving at Henry Kissinger's home.
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>>>    *John Schwartz* ‏@jswatz  <https://twitter.com/jswatz> 7m7 minutes
>>>    ago <https://twitter.com/jswatz/status/733017172583284737>
>>>
>>>    "We talked about foxes." @alexburnsNYT
>>>    <https://twitter.com/alexburnsNYT>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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