![]() ![]() The narrator/author's reading is ponderously slow and his pronunciation is often pompous. Several people I respect said it was excellent, but I now have to disagree. By turns meditative and devastating, charming and strange, Fifteen Dogs shows you can teach an old genre new tricks. Wily Benjy moves from home to home, Prince becomes a poet, and Majnoun forges a relationship with a kind couple that stops even the Fates in their tracks.Īndré Alexis' contemporary take on the apologue offers an utterly compelling and affecting look at the beauty and perils of human consciousness. The gods watch from above as the dogs venture into their newly unfamiliar world, as they become divided among themselves, as each struggles with new thoughts and feelings. ![]() ![]() ![]() Suddenly capable of more complex thought, the pack is torn between those who resist the new ways of thinking, preferring the old dog ways, and those who embrace the change. "I'll wager a year's servitude," answered Apollo, "that animals - any animal you like - would be even more unhappy than humans are if they were given human intelligence."Īnd so it begins: a bet between the gods Hermes and Apollo leads them to grant human consciousness and language to a group of dogs overnighting at a Toronto veterinary clinic. "I wonder," said Hermes, "what it would be like if animals had human intelligence." ![]()
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