Read 'Timoleon Vieta come home' by Dan Rhodes. Nice novelwith lots of grey in it. I did not quite understand why Cockroft had to be gay. I don't have issues with homosexuality. Perhaps its Cockroft's dependence on the dog that Rhodes wanted to stress upon. Homosexuality seems to accentuate the psychological needs of a man by making him reliant upon the oppsite sex for a lot more than just sex. May be that's what love is all about. May be love goes beyond physicality. IS it necessarily devoid of sex? I don't know. May be yes, may be no. May be that's what the dog was all about. Complete devotion in love. Men seem to make wonem the target of their residual anger. The Bosnian kills the dog after all.

Rhodes is a very powerful author. 'Unputdownable' as it goes. The canvas of the dog's journey linking unknown characters together is fabulous. Seems a new idea to a strager to literature like me. May be it's not. The Chinese girl is unforgettable. I wanted to keep with me forever a picture of a Chinese girl that appeared in one of the news papers. And then I remembered her anguish. Don't even want to think what happens when someone cause their father's death. Blacker than coal. The heart I mean.

Is it humanly possible to get out of one's mind & write?