That and the couch weighed practically nothing now that it had been torn apart and shredded. Possessions in the here and now are meaningless. He says this to me as a dog stares at me from the couch, its big brown eyes bobbing up and down to Tyler's movements. It was a big dog, as dogs go. Its fur was matted somewhat from the rain and looked blue in the gloom of the smoky light from outside, but I knew it was actually dark brown.
Animals are the training wheels of humanity.
Like the space monkeys. Like space monkeys. We train them to do a task. They do it perfectly and we think we know how the universe works. Push a button, fill a void.