Wednesday, October 16, 2019

CHAIN

“What he'd do, he'd never go out to the length of the chain. He'd never even get out to where the chain got tight. Even if the mailman pulled up, or a salesman. Out of dignity, this dog pretended like he chose this one area to stay in that just happened to be inside the length of the chain. Nothing outside of that area right there interested him. He just had zero interest. So he never noticed the chain. He didn't hate it. The chain. He just up and made it not relevant. maybe he wasn't pretending--maybe he really up and chose that little circle for his own world. He had a power to him. All of his life on that chain.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

1 comment:

SL said...

I love the idea of "he just up and made it irrelevant" in the theoretical sense but reading about a dog living his life on a chain....that makes me want to put the owner on a chain in a very real sense.