• Vol. 10
  • Chapter 05

Current Life Worlds of the 17th Century

The dog had evolved in such a manner as to be able to get the food from the humans, and the monkey had evolved in such a manner as to be able to get the food for himself, but the dog had not evolved in such a manner as to be able to get the food from the monkey, which is to say when the dog gazed moon-eyed at the monkey the monkey did not feel the things the monkey would have needed to feel in order become motivated to share some of the food with the dog, which was the thing the humans felt when the dog gazed moon-eyed at them. In other news, the lobster was fucking enormous and also, since the annoying thing about grapes is that you never can tell just by looking at them, the only way to find out if they were firm or not would have been to ask the monkey, but we don't think the monkey had evolved in such a manner as to be able to reply.

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