Pugnax’ and TOE?
I recently lost my dog of 11.5 years to a savage cancer that bloomed in her heart just before Christmas and took her away from us by the first week of the new year. Thus the passages on Pugnax mid-novel (550-551) are especially resonant: “Their admiration for Pugnax’s martial skills was not unmixed these days with apprehension. The faithful canine carried about a strange gleam in his eye, and the only member of the crew who communicated with him much anymore was Miles Blundell. The two had been known to sit together side by side on the fantail, wordlessly deep into the hours of the midwatch, as if in some sort of telepathic contact. ” The passage goes on (pp 550-551) and rings the changes around the timeless trope of man’s best friend, as in: “Thus he sought out Pugnax, in whose eyes the light of understanding was a beacon in what had without warning become dangerous skies.” The point here is that what’s in Pugnax’s eyes is a comprehension of a impending ominence, which is referred to as “that immeasurable Approach,” and that this dog with a “highly developed taste for human blood” may be part (might one say warp and woof?) of a larger theme around trans-species communications? Note that in the same passage describing Pugnax’ ferocity, Randolph St. Cosmo refers to “the way he drove off that squadron of Uhlans at Temesvar, almost as if he were hypnotizing their horses into unseating their riders.” Recall the talking duck from M+D. So if you, kind reader, are willing to entertain trans-species communications (which actually, when we think about the communicating chemicals from GR, is not that big a stretch) then I’s gonna stick one little TOE in the water and submit that the imagination that connects all living entities across four dimensions (can we say “if it quacks like a Quaternion and walks ‘all-quadrants’, Wilber?) that the ATD is among other things, (such as a Gaian manifesto), a theory of everything.
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