A significant lack

Spinoza, in Proposition XXIX, says, "We shall endeavor to do everything which we imagine me (let it be understood in this... that we mean men for whom we have no particular emotion) to regard with pleasure, and, on the other hand, we shall be averse to doing what we imagine men to turn away from.

Not. one. word. about DOGS. What was thing guy thinking?

A pattern emerges

Sometimes he pours himself into the portals beneath his paws, passes through the threshold, and travels into realms unknown to those who simply walk upon the carpet without looking down.