Author: Anthea » Thu Jul 11, 2013 9:37 pm
Piling wrote:Indeed, he would have helped me if he'd spoken in KURMANCÎ

. But I think the commemorates the events in Suleymanieh in February 2011.
SORRY I should have realised he was speaking Sorani - he placards people are holding are written in English so I assume he is in England- I fail to understand why he is not speaking English
Piling wrote:I am reading a fine novel and that terrible sample about dogs and dogs' owners in a poor suburban place made me thing of you and you PET

Hope yours are less psychotic :
"The estate was full of dogs – people bought them to make their life safer, but it didn't work out that way. All the dogs had psychological problems: hatred of children, hatred of bikes, hatred of paperboys, hatred of black kids, hatred of white kids, hatred of fast-moving objects; some hated the sky and bark and leapt at it all day. The happy thing for the dogs was there was always another dog who shared their psychosis and who they could join in a gang. The estate was patrolled by these packs of like-minded dogs, wandering the walkways and quads like in incontinent, limping support group. Kate stared out at their lolling tongues and their evil mouths and tried to keep calm. Dog owners would see her start to run away from their slavering, straining, ultra-violent beasts and would shout after her: 'Don't be scared, they smell fear.' This advice was supposed to be useful in a way that Kate couldn't understand. The other thing she couldn't grasp was the difference between a nip and a bite – she thought it was something to do with intent – but it was hard to tell. Six of the eleven times she'd bee bitten, the dog's owner had been present at the scene, and in each case had said of the attack: 'He's only playing. It's a nip, not a bite.'"
What Was Lost, Catherine O'Flyn
We have lots of estates exactly the same as that one - fortunately none near me
I live in a very safe English part of England - there has not been a break-in locally for over 30 years - nobody steals garden furniture - the shops do not have those hideous metal grills on them - the dogs are all friendly - I swear that I am the only person for miles around who is awake after midnight
During the summer our parks have lots of functions and fairs - perhaps one or two happy policemen wandering around - we have car boot sales where people safely leave their purchases at the side of a field so that they could walk around and buy some more things - no-body steals anything
Perhaps that book you are reading "What Was Lost" is about how some parts of England have gone down and are not safe to live in anymore

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