Word: dog
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sophomore year? Remember sneaking in at 2 a.m. on a Saturday night through the glass sliding door in your brother’s room with the nasty smaste (the crusty combination of smell and taste) of vomit in your sinuses, stumbling drunkenly through the hallway, tripping over the dog and falling asleep lying on your back with your head lolling off the corner...
...arrived home without incident. My mom, shockingly, had no opinion on it. My brother told me he wouldn’t be asking me to drive him and his friends anywhere anytime soon (fine with me) and my dad just laughed. My dog sniffed it a couple of times, and then licked it, and after I returned from scrubbing it for about ten minutes he treated me just the same. My friends mostly liked it. My cat treated me as she always does: with snooty derision, annoyance and scratching...
...Cambridge resident reported that persons unknown placed dog feces on his front porch and chairs, and later returned to place chicken guts on his porch...
...year's most unusual mystery novel, the entire world is a mystery. Christopher is autistic. He can't understand ordinary jokes. He can't read other people's facial expressions. When people touch him, he panics and screams. So when he stumbles on the corpse of his neighbor's dog Wellington impaled on a garden fork, it's just one more mystery that needs solving. "In a murder mystery novel," the young man tells us, with his permanently straight face, "someone has to work out who the murderer is and then catch them. It is a puzzle." Indeed...
...intimately than he at first supposes--we gradually learn what it's like to dwell in the mind of a child with a photographic memory, who knows every prime number up to 7,057, but who can't understand what a hypothetical question is. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is funny, sad and totally convincing. But is it a mystery novel at all? Or a meta-mystery? Or something entirely new? That itself is a mystery--and worth investigating...