Speaking of foxes ...

[Mark Kohut]

Foxes everywhere now. Misc below
from the poem TO SEE addressed to "my mute city' --to be sung like Homer I
feel.
By Adam Zagajewski,

the last four lines: "the earth still turns above you/
and the Roman legions march/
and a polar fox attends the wind/
in a white wasteland where sounds perish.

translated by Clare Cavanaugh.

So many tropes the same, but kaleidescopically turned, by so many writers.

On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 3:40 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

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