Dogs are there to remind us that loyalty is a jumpy, fizzy emotion. Loyalty leaps up at the door and barks with joy at your return - and then immediately goes to sleep at your side. Simple fidelity is the youngest emotion we possess.
Is a wife (or husband) 'better than a dog'?
So to my wife. She has been complaining for the past few years that I have not yet dedicated a book to her. I have always said that it is because I do not yet know how to express the extent of my feelings.
But now I do.
"To Martha," I shall write at the beginning of my next book. "Better than a dog, anyhow."
-from
A Point of View: Is there a secret to a happy marriage? by Adam Gopnik, more at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21940297Linkback:
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