tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post4833267584707601683..comments2024-03-26T23:41:10.319+00:00Comments on Authors Electric: What did the dog mean? by Bill KirtonKatherine Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-8971107565489990132014-10-08T11:23:26.874+01:002014-10-08T11:23:26.874+01:00Thanks again, all.
Lydia, I'm two thirds of t...Thanks again, all.<br /><br />Lydia, I'm two thirds of the way through a terrific book by the Dutch primatologist and ethologist Frans de Waal. It's called The Bonobo and the Atheist and, among many other fascinating insights, the author offers clear evidence of precisely the sort of eye contact between us and animals that you describe.<br /><br />Thanks Reb, but surely there are more appropriate gurus in Seattle.<br /><br />Thanks, Sandra. I know what you mean about Jung. He and his 'shadow self'. would have a field day with this.Bill Kirtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16345949773423764808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-71237870225760241712014-10-07T14:52:18.461+01:002014-10-07T14:52:18.461+01:00Jung would have loved this post...and so do I.Jung would have loved this post...and so do I.Sandra Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01761260568729338471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-54288567836570816922014-10-07T14:29:00.356+01:002014-10-07T14:29:00.356+01:00Well done, Wild Bill. I seem to be the only one wh...Well done, Wild Bill. I seem to be the only one who knows that the dog is telling you to get yourself a cat. Then again, I'm a student of yours, so I tend to know such things.glitter noirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11728649916344336118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-73258724392982409242014-10-07T12:33:51.233+01:002014-10-07T12:33:51.233+01:00yes a lovely post Bill. I wonder if it's innat...yes a lovely post Bill. I wonder if it's innate, or because fiction has conditioned us, that we seek deeper meanings in encounters and events than the obvious? How people still look for 'signs' and things that must ' mean something'. Meeting animals away from people and buildings often leaves a strong feeling of something communicated, even if our modern minds aren't sure what - thinking of locking eyes with seals, wild goats, South African animals. Lydia Bennethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09328239009863878547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-61236718438722095352014-10-07T11:44:52.813+01:002014-10-07T11:44:52.813+01:00Thanks for the comments all.
Julia, sorry to have...Thanks for the comments all.<br /><br />Julia, sorry to have (nearly) dethroned one of your heroes. To my shame, I didn't realise the two Simons were so closely connected. The son obviously took after his mother.<br /><br />Madwippitt, I suspected you'd chastise me for the shooing away. I do, however, have a friend who's a chocolate labrador and two others who are black labs from next door, but we can't have one ourselves because my wife's terrified of them.<br /><br />Yes, Jo, and the meanings will/may change from day to day anyway. In fact, my next post will revisit this.<br /><br />Lee, you're very welcome to the granite blocks - just as long as I don't have to deliver them.Bill Kirtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16345949773423764808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-28173538213616241762014-10-07T10:08:42.811+01:002014-10-07T10:08:42.811+01:00Lovely post about the power of imagination. Some o...Lovely post about the power of imagination. Some of the very best fantasy resides in that wonderful, strange, fertile borderland between the mundane and the magical. And I'm borrowing (OK, plagiarising, if you prefer) your granite blocks for a path I've been struggling to describe in my latest chapter! Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13770069472552779217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-24551146183902445652014-10-07T09:13:44.034+01:002014-10-07T09:13:44.034+01:00I just love your first line - some of this is true...I just love your first line - some of this is true - so who knows what place this dog has in the story? If it has meaning - for you, or for us. Great stuff!JOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03127111575563904349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-21310677202566700652014-10-07T08:03:22.432+01:002014-10-07T08:03:22.432+01:00Obviously it means that your subconscious is telli...Obviously it means that your subconscious is telling you to get a dog. One of the ones from rescue that is passed by because it is not young enough or cute enough. Fancy chasing it away! If you can't have one, then maybe it is your subconscious telling you to sponsor one instead? Try http://www.kimshome.org.uk/madwippitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-49643856391855272802014-10-07T06:44:34.566+01:002014-10-07T06:44:34.566+01:00Doesn't have to mean anything does it? An imag...Doesn't have to mean anything does it? An image rather than a parable? Liked your piece except for Simon de Montfort who I'd dimly thought of as a Good Guy (sort of chap you'd name a university after) In fact I was so put out I went to Wikipedia which I discover TWO significant S de Ms. Your persecutor of the Albigensians and my early democrat (his son). So that's a relief. Better go write something of my own now. Your free association piece has done good to the head. Thanksjulia joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09773900100240758504noreply@blogger.com