Fifteen Dogs

No, of course not. There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behaviour and his great dignity. I do not understand these things, he thought. But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.

He was beautiful, the old man remembered, and he had stayed. That was the saddest thing I ever saw with them, the old man thought. The boy was sad too and we begged her pardon and butchered her promptly.

C'est extraordinaire à quel point les bêtes se sentent seules dans un deux-pièces du grand Paris et combien elles ont besoin de quelqu'un à aimer. Je ne pouvais pas jeter ça dans la gueule d'un python affamé par simple égard pour les lois de la nature. Je

I had come to see language as an almost supernatural force, existing between people, bringing our brains, shielded in centimeter-thick skulls, into communion. A word meant something only between people, and life’s meaning, its virtue, had something to do with the depth of the relationships we form.