Speaking of foxes ...

[Mark Kohut]

Trying to explore interpretive work on *Monte's cluster* in Pynchon, this
came up as prosaic find...from AtD decades later but no damn foxes, no damn
dogs either.
"It is in the nature of prey, Cyprian was later to reflect, that at times,
instead of submitting to the demands of some predator, they will insist
upon being difficult. Running for their lives. Putting on ..."

*The Little Foxes* is a 1939 play by Lillian Hellman
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Hellman>, considered a classic of
20th century drama. Its title comes from Chapter 2, Verse 15 of the Song of
Solomon <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_of_Songs> in the King James
version <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorized_King_James_Version> of
the Bible <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible>, which reads, "Take us the
foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender
grapes."



On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 12:23 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> *Very* interesting. Are you aware of any critical writing that
> concentrates on the "fox, dog, hunt, predator/prey" cluster running through
> GR? I don't know why, but it has caught my eye much more this time through
> than ever before.
>
> FWIW, there's also David Garnett's 1922 Lady Into Fox and an hommage to
> it, Jean Bruller (Vercors)'s 1960  Sylva. Vercors himself had been hunted
> by Germans as a Maquisard in occupied France.
>
> On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Krafft, John M. <krafftjm at miamioh.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Has anyone mention (in relation to Pointsman's rather than Spectro's
>> idea of a fox) the fox in John Hawkes's _Cannibal_ (1949)? Consider
>> just this first mention: "The Duke, shortening the pace, picked his
>> way carefully by the cliff of fallen walls and poked with his cane
>> into the dark crevices, hoping to stick the crouched body of his prey,
>> to light upon the thin fox" (24). The fox is, of course, a small boy,
>> whom the Duke stalks, kills, dismembers and cooks. The novel has
>> flashbacks to the First World War, but the hunt occurs in the novel's
>> present, 1945, in occupied Germany.
>>
>> John
>> -
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>>
>
>
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