Afterglow (a dog memoir)
from Afterglow
To be a deep and constant well of sadness is a very real thing but it does not mean that you should go either right or left. It just means you are a well. You need to go on and especially now you need to go fast. Because you want to cover some land in the time you’ve got left. I need to finish this tapestry, be done with your book and resume my own travelling. Your grandmother entered into Peggy because that’s what people do all the time. Become dogs. And dogs become human that way and this transmigration of souls is a very Irish thing, remarked upon persistently in literature. But it’s wider than Irish or American. More ancient. And we will continue now with our weaving. Which I think you understand now is an intuition. A dog talking inside of your head. Listen closely. And carry this message to the world. I’ve been other dogs. And I’ve been people other than your father.
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