Word: mongrels
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...superiority to the transiency of life. How frustrating, then, that as he grows older, the poet cannot again find the white wolfhound where he was sure he saw it in Veronese (or maybe Giambattista Tiepolo). How puzzling that his imagination keeps calling up a picture of a black mongrel scavenging along the wharf of a Caribbean harbor town...
...Douglas is the author of Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s
Before you ask, no knowledge of Slavic languages is required. The reading is in translation, and the reading is worth reading. The ten books include Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov, a novel about a scroungy Moscow mongrel transformed into a lecherous, vulgar man who spouts the philosophy of Friedrich Engels...
...that I come here as a mongrel, perhaps an avatar of one of the two dogs in Cervantes' great tale, El colloquio de los perros, there is something incredibly thrilling about a variation that is now developing from the experience that I had known at the "U". When I arrived there in 1971, French was on the wane. Those of us who had learned the discipline in the old style, following the principle of immortal authors and timeless masterpieces, were subjecting what we read and saw to the force of theory that we pretended to practice. (Nineteen-sixty-eight came...
...pulls and tugs on his loyalties, the presumptive European strain in his ancestry and the transreligion union between his Christian mother and Jewish father: "I, however, was raised neither as Catholic nor as Jew. I was both, and nothing: a jewholic-anonymous, a cathjew nut, a stewpot, a mongrel cur. I was--what's the word these days?--atomised. Yessir: a real Bombay...