Hell, they went in there with dogs, but the only two tanukis they flushed, well, the tanukis led the hounds into a river or a pond or something and then turned on -em and drowned -em. ❋ Robbins, Tom (2003)
"The tanukis are fine, little darling, " she thought she heard the voice purr in her ear. ❋ Robbins, Tom (2003)
Even so, the girl was well into her teens before it occurred to her that her cherished playtime with tanukis might constitute a lucrative profession. ❋ Robbins, Tom (2003)
"Saw on TV, " Thomas said, 'that there was a train wreck and the damn tanukis got away. ❋ Robbins, Tom (2003)
Maybe the affecting aspect was that Madame Ko's tanukis sparked in an onlooker's muscles a kinetic memory of the innocent freedom of early childhood, when one could let one's body go all akimbo on the slightest whim, could bounce, flop, and skip about in pure corporeal joy without embarrassment, judgment, or restraint. ❋ Robbins, Tom (2003)
Next, they discussed Dern's arrest (Lisa Ko was amazed that he already knew about it; was, though she concealed it, more than a little annoyed that he knew, after she'd traveled halfway around the world, walking out on the circus, leaving her tanukis in the care of an unstable individual, to bring the news). ❋ Robbins, Tom (2003)
Thus, if the reader is wise enough not to try to impose human limitations or narrow notions of uniformity on the Divine Principle, is nimble-minded enough to realize that he or she can be (perhaps should be!) simultaneously monotheistic and pantheistic, then he or she will have scant problem in accepting the paradoxical essence of our small friend, Tanuki of the tanukis. ❋ Robbins, Tom (2003)
At some point during the night, when he was quite tipsy, he began to drum on his protruding belly, as tanukis are wont to do, and the pla-bonga pla-bonga sound of his drumming eventually attracted a kitsune. ❋ Robbins, Tom (2003)
They reasoned that he was alive and well, perhaps living in a cave with a family of tanukis. ❋ Robbins, Tom (2003)
"For the first time ever on the North American continent, " proclaimed the disembodied ringmaster, -a titillating troupe, a curious congregation, an exotic ensemble of one of the rarest animals on earth-the tremendous tumbling tanukis from the jungles of Southeast Asia, genuine mystery beasts: captured, tamed, and trained to execute amazing and amusing antics by the glamorous adventuress, Madame Ko. ❋ Robbins, Tom (2003)
According to the report, several apes and a lion had been recaptured unharmed and without difficulty, but the entire troupe of rare tanukis had escaped into the hills and simply vanished. ❋ Robbins, Tom (2003)
The tanukis and I, we travel from city to city and put on our little act. ❋ Robbins, Tom (2003)
Chingo-do happens to be a temple consecrated to tanukis, and Thomas definitely had not gone there on purpose. ❋ Robbins, Tom (2003)
Dickie had often encouraged the girl in her endeavors because he found it amusing and was touched by the joy it brought her, but it was the ringmaster who eventually recognized the potential of performing tanukis, and when she was sixteen or so, urged her to get serious about it. ❋ Robbins, Tom (2003)
At a time when many species of wildlife are being driven into extinction by the grandiose arrogance and prolific bad habits of the human race, tanukis seem to be ... well, if not actually multiplying, at least fanning out. ❋ Robbins, Tom (2003)
She was remembering, obviously, her escaped tanukis, how they were at large at Grants Pass-but then, suddenly, something else came to mind. ❋ Robbins, Tom (2003)
Technically, Col. Patt Thomas was incorrect when he mentioned that tanukis are indigenous to Southeast Asia (Thomas gleaned that information from his circus program). ❋ Robbins, Tom (2003)
Or maybe, on a strictly subconscious level, circusgoers recognized in the antics of the tanukis-antics that appeared goofy and bumbling yet, at the same time, brave and successful-an analogy to their own blindly hopeful gyrations in a complex, impermanent universe where every happy dance was danced in the lengthening shadow of death. ❋ Robbins, Tom (2003)
There have even been one or two reports of tanukis in the French Alps! ❋ Robbins, Tom (2003)
Neither wholly believing nor completely rejecting that there was any salvation in that litany, Dickie repeated it for the Lisa that was in it-while deep in the gorge below Villa Incognito, below the singing circus wire, where the mist was so thick it felt like fur on the eyeballs, a pair of tanukis who had escaped Madame Ko's traps were barking wisecracks at the tiger who fancied them for lunch. ❋ Robbins, Tom (2003)
