“Dog’s curse comes announced by wind and wind says, ‘The maggots shall eat you all. One way or another maggot shall rule the world.’ Dog is loose in the memory or he’d rise up and demand a higher shelf for his life and invent sweet myths to explain it all. Once upon a time, two ticks in the Garden, one saying to the other, What this place needs is a dog. . . .” – Leon Rooke, Shakespeare’s Dog