ENGLISH 2C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fifteen Dogs, Literary Award
7 Jun 2017
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About what it means to be human (place, faith, love, power, hatred) Gillard prize biggest literary prize in canada: on panel are well known authors. About the struggles of what it means to be human. Books tend to highlight the worst in us: books tend to be about what people need to work on, less fulfilling to write about and read. Hermes admirers humans/mortals because they have a concept of death (tied to concept of time) P 155: ask human to choose happy life/miserable death . , most of the dogs experience fleeting moments of happiness. This is not enough to make a them happy (happy life) So saying that a dog is not happy based on selected moments is not indicative of their lives. Concept of being human from trivial things (noticing colours) to overarching things (prince"s realization that poetry is eternal) Now have to think about others in different way. Isolates them from other dogs, critical of their lives.
