Monday, December 8, 2008

Favourite Passage: Timbuktu by Paul Auster

"But the truth is, friend, that dogs can read. Why else would they putthose signs on the doors of post ofifices? NO DOGS ALLOWED EXCEPT FORSEEING-EYE DOGS. Do you catch my meaning? The man with the dog can'treadit, who else is left? THat's what they do in those seeing-see schools. They just don't tell us. They've kept it secret and bynow it's one of hte three or fourvbest-kept secretes in Amercia. forgood reason, too. If word gotout, just think of what wouldhappen. Dogs as smart as men? A blasphermoussasertion. There'dbe riots in the streets, they'd burn down the WhiteHouse, mayhem wouldrule. In three months, dogs would be pressing for theiindependence.Delegations would convene, negotiations would being, and hteend they'dsettle the things by giving up Nebraska, South Dakota and half ofKansas."

Willie G Christmas in Timbuktu by Paul Auster.

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