Speaking of foxes ...

[Monte Davis]

Actually, foxes came last to the cluster  and Mike Jing gets the assist: I
had the Dog Vanya hunt in front of me when I read his question in March
about this, late in the book

"...each Rocket will know its intended and hunt him, ride him a green-doped
and silent hound...his guardian executioner rushing in..."

Aside from the resonance with today's drones and their missiles, I thought:
what an inversion that represents from the emphatically indiscriminate,
random V-2 we started with. So I searched the e-text for "hound(s)," then
"dog(s)," and only later "fox(es)." And damn if there isn't a pack of 'em,
deployed in places and patterns at least as interesting as the good old
tarot pack.
,

On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 5:22 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>> -
>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>>
>>
>>
>
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