Speaking of foxes ...

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And it all adds up to a pack of....

On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 2:26 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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, considered a classic
>> of 20th century drama. Its title comes from Chapter 2, Verse 15 of the Song
>> of Solomon in the King James version of the 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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