The Way of the Dog

True stories are never the best stories, because they lack a proper ending and a proper meaning, but they are the ones that are most faithful to life.

Of course it is possible, even likely in most cases, that happy people are only pretending, I have often thought. It is probable, viewed scientifically, that their so-called happiness is at bottom an elaborate superstructure of evasion and denial, a Darwinian survival mechanism of some sort, a genetic falsehood designed to stave off the suicide of the species. This is undeniably th