No one is as fondly attached to pets as Americans, the research says. They are not service pets, they are meant to be companions.Īn ambitious and popular marketing campaign is launched to try and appeal to the American consumer. The dogs are marketed and designed as companions, can be replicated to mimic any desirable pet (cat, dog, turtle &c) including hair, sounds, circadian cycles and even, to a degree movement of bodies. The joke ultimately being the reader itself and the book, much like the abyss, enjoying the last and everlasting laugh.Ī Robotics company out of Japan has just announced their launch of of new robotic dogs. This is a wakeup call and a dire one at that that has been largely ignored in the three decades even since its publication.ģ.) It is a joke, but a joke in the most serious, Kafkaesque fashion.
the ultimate shallowness of scientism, the fraudulence of self-help book genres and that the Self cannot ultimately help itself, the lack of understanding or even confronting of what the Self really is. It is an attack on the culture and the way we usually answer and grapple with questions. Its primary function is to be funny, entertaining.Ģ.) It is a spiritually wholesome novel that must be taken seriously. Yes, it grapples with spiritual and metaphysical questions still unanswered in modern society, but it does not offer answers. You describe the book asġ.) A unique and alternative way of storytelling, befitting roughly of your zeitgeist, with a tinge of satire and elbow ribbing, but ultimately a humorous book. You are prompted to give a brief review on the book.
You have just finished Walker Percy's Lost in the Cosmos.
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