GRGR(4): Human Dogs

[Lars Frehse]

Ahem, well,
there´s something I´d like to add to my earlier post regarding the dogs
being metaphors for humans:

"[...]the stolen dogs sleep, , scratch, recall shadowy smells of humans
who may have loved them [...]" (GR78.14)
"The dogs, engineered and lethal, watch you from the woods." (GR83.16)

Probably this has been mentioned earlier, but those dogs sure have a lot
in common with the simple enlisted men (if not whole populations) in
this war.
Surely, those now lethal men can only dimly remember a time that was
filled with now alien emotions and experiences, like love and simple
tenderness. And, like the dogs, they were conditioned (or engineered) to
become what they are by machiavellian masters who´s motivations and
machinations were far beyond the grasps of those victimized "creatures".

Also, am I the only one who´s reminded of Günter Grass´s "Dog Years",
when reading all those dog-metaphors?
Makes me remember, why I prefer cats.
                                                            Lars

Oh, and btw, Doug: why pigs?