“Dogs only have a present tense in their lives,” he continued. “Their memories are like those carved ice swans you see at weddings, that look good but melt in an hour. Humans have to endure everything in life in agonizingly endless clock time—every single second of it. Not only this, but we have to remember having endured our entire lives, as well. What a drag, no? It’s amazing we all haven’t gone mad.”
Excerpt from “Patty Hearst” in Life After God by Douglas Coupland
