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Images of dogs, mutants and social outcasts permeate all 12 stories in Dogwalker. The first person narrator, who remains relatively consistent throughout, explores a dark, sinister and twisted world with such unperturbed sang-froid that the most outrageous and absolutely surreal events seen like common place occurrences. The passive and directionless narrator of each story lacks any roots or real home. He is a loner whose life is dictated by chance and who passively allows fate to govern his existence. A motley collection of three-legged dogs, mutated puppies, deformed human beings, psychopaths, overgrown slugs, drug addicts, women who practice...
...opening number, "Sang-Froid," featured dancers in plain black pants and t-shirts and the music of Frederic Chopin. The moves seemed so natural, seemed to fit the music so well, that I wondered why I hadn't seen those exact moves in my mind every time I heard that music before. Sometimes the movements appeared amateur, like someone thrashing around in his room with windows and doors shut against prying eyes. But there is no denying their skill, as they leapt and spun across the stage. The choreography was a study in patterns, almost mathematical in its precision. Morris...
...humans, that is called sangfroid. And if you don't have any sang, you can be very froid. But then again if Meade had known absolutely--by calculating the precise trajectories of all the bullets and all the bayonets and all the cannons in Pickett's division--the time of arrival of the enemy, he could indeed, without fear, have ordered his men to pick apples...
...inscription upon the mantle of the fireplace in the Great Hall, for I believe it aptly betrays the opportunistic and unethical role of the University in this ill-conceived proposal and it exposes Harvard's violation of her sacred trusteeship. It unmasks Harvard as the ugly and loveless, sang froid entity into which it sadly has metamorphosed. It is a stern warning against such unthinkable shortsightedness...
...last of the expected guests is Miss Casewell, a mysterious young woman. Chalon Emmonds delights the audience with sneers of cold contempt and satiric witticisms, delivered with just the right amount of sang froid...