They offer, if we are wise enough or simple enough to take it, a model for what it means to give your heart with little thought of return. Both powerfully imaginary and comfortingly real, dogs act as mirrors for our own beliefs about what would constitute a truly humane society. Perhaps it is not too late for them to teach us some new tricks.
Dog love is not the special realm of childhood or of boyhood, no matter what the movies keep telling us. It is highly significant, I think, that at b… - Marjorie Garber
Dog love is not the special realm of childhood or of boyhood, no matter what the movies keep telling us. It is highly significant, I think, that at b…
- Marjorie Garber
If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness. - Marjorie Garber
If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness.
We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If literature solves problems, it does so by it… - Marjorie Garber
We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If literature solves problems, it does so by it…
They offer, if we are wise enough or simple enough to take it, a model for what it means to give your heart with little thought of return. Both power… - Marjorie Garber
They offer, if we are wise enough or simple enough to take it, a model for what it means to give your heart with little thought of return. Both power…
A study conducted by the State University of New York at Buffalo Medical School suggested that in times of stress a dog is likely to be more help in … - Marjorie Garber
A study conducted by the State University of New York at Buffalo Medical School suggested that in times of stress a dog is likely to be more help in …
The dog becomes the repository of those model human properties that we have cynically ceased to find among humans. Where today can we find the full p… - Marjorie Garber
The dog becomes the repository of those model human properties that we have cynically ceased to find among humans. Where today can we find the full p…
Well named, Quotology contains everything you always wanted to know about quotations, quoters, quotees, quotation books, 'quoox' (quotations out of c… - Marjorie Garber
Well named, Quotology contains everything you always wanted to know about quotations, quoters, quotees, quotation books, 'quoox' (quotations out of c…
Jargon marks the place where thinking has been. It becomes a kind of macro, to use a computer term: a way of storing a complicated sequence of thinki… - Marjorie Garber
Jargon marks the place where thinking has been. It becomes a kind of macro, to use a computer term: a way of storing a complicated sequence of thinki…
If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own. - Marjorie Garber
If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.
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