[lit-ideas] "What a Nightmare, Snoopy"

Yost does not like imperatives like "Smile", "Love thy neighbour". Unless  
they are _pleased_. He goes:
 
>Please read _The Call of the Wild_ by Jack London. 
 
Geary: what's the effect on you of adverbials like 'please'?

Anyway:
 
It's a lovely book!
 
Some comments from wiki:
 
"Because the protagonist is a dog, it is sometimes classified as a juvenile  
novel, suitable for children."
 
 
----- On the other hand, why is it that Geary's "A Night with Octopussy  
Galore" is _not_?
 
Also: read: _BOY_'s literature, not juvenile, or children. It's _boy_. 
 
-----
 
Racial views of London:

>Judge Miller's gardener's assistant, Manuel, 
>along with a [suitably similar Hispanic] friend, abducts 
>the dog and sells him.
 
But the moral is that it wasn't so bad, because Buck _learned_.
 
What did he learn (can we use 'learn' like that? Or rather 'acquire the  
habit of ...'? In my idiolect, or my grandmother's rather, 'learn' is only  
_ironic_ when what you learn is _bad_).
 
Wiki says:
 
>learns to steal food.
 
>The animated special What a Nightmare, Charlie Brown!
> is a parody of The Call of the Wild, with Snoopy as Buck.
 
I tried to paste the Japanese signals below on the header, but failed. 
 
>There is a Japanese anime television series adaptation 
>known as Anime Yasei no Sakebi (アニメ野性のさけび Anime Cry of Wildness)
 
but I'm very interested in conceptualisations of 'wildness' -- S. Penn  
recently released his "Into the Wild" which I enjoyed. I wouldn't know what the 
 
classical Greek or Roman (Roman especially since they were so proud of being  
_civilised_) for 'wild' would be. It's a very difficult Anglo-Saxonism to  
translate. "Wildlife" for example, even if International, sounds _very_ rude to 
 
natives of Buenos Aires!
 
I titled this like I did because I can see Snoopy portraying Buck killing  
those Indians who killed his master!
 
Cheers,
 
JL
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