The Ghost in Love: A Novel by Jonathan Carroll"Death interrupted" with talking animals (wink, wink, nudge, nudge [how do you set aside a further parenthetical within a parenthetical] that was an English majors not too subtle reference...). The male hero's Asian female ghost falls in love with his girl friend (thus our hero can only reflect-that his ghost a lesbian loves his girl friend named German from Minnesota...anyway I digress)...and when his girl is talking to their dog...She says (to the dog) you speak English, no, the dog replies you understand "dog". And then there is the episode where the dog puts out an emergency call to cats and rats to help him break into this apartment building...now this is only done in the most extreme emergency because the animals don't want humans to know that they can communicate across species!
It is a story of what might have been...choices made or not made, demons we carry with us...all that good existential stuff (i.e., about the meaning of life). Is there a critique of unreasoning?
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