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Guston's obvious debts are to American graphic art, to "some of the comic strips I used to really love-Mutt and Jeff, and Krazy Kat." But the idiom is overloaded to the edge of portentousness. It is as if Guston flipped back to the late '30s, when he was a WPA muralist -those remote days when it was still believed that political comment could give art relevance...
Alfred snuffling about her. Alfred coming in. Watchit Alfred, bad karma. Bad karma too in Sam's judicial face watched her while she was ministering to young Stefan. Samson the hidebound eastern mutt. Merilee finds her dress and pulls it on over her head. She goes lightly barefoot to the edge of the canyon, expecting still her other half is nearby and waiting...
Alfred sat panting, watching her, anxious eyebrows raised. Bug-eyed with terror at the crashing on before him. Afraid. Leery. Poor Alfred, he was a doubt-bound eastern mutt, so apprehensive. And smaller than Girl. Eensy teensy on the beach below...
...manager is an insensitive swine; for a month's supply of subway tokens he would send a fighter up against a mountain slide. The fighter, swimming up from economic backwaters, is a supreme dolt and an exploited object of surface pity. Then comes the trainer, faithful as a mutt. Behind them all sits the omnipotent syndicate, whose generals eat pheasant under glass and meticulously avoid the sauce stains...
...true that I pestered the dog. Such was my loneliness that after a time I ascribed human characteristics to the mutt. I talked to him constantly ('Let me tell you about the ambiguity of Henry James, Christie'). I taught him to sit up manlike, his spine leaning against the back of the davenport; and with my arm thrown buddy-like over his shoulder, we sat and 'watched' the television together. I even made him a little blue sweatshirt, a replica...