Must Thibault imagine the animal (who was long since dead but when and how? He couldn't remember) skinned and braised? Milou as dinner. Once something is named it can never be eaten. Once you have called it brother in your mind it should enjoy the freedoms of a brother.

“Far outside the city the tree frogs were calling her, and the deep, rhythmic pu…”

“Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, th…”

“We all have ideas, sometimes good ones, not to mention the gift of emotional tu…”

“She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.”