Pretend you are a dog like me and listen to other people rather than steal their stories. Share this: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email the art of racing in the rain. Listen to chapter 1 from the audio book: Part 1: Part 2: Buy the audio book.
So my initial conversational gambit - that I had a funny story about being chased by my neighbor's dog - would be totally lost, and only because you had to tell me all about Pele. The Art of Racing in the Rain Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog Enzo Races in the Rain Enzo’s Very Scary Halloween Enzo and the Christmas Tree Hunt. For instance, if we met at a party and I wanted to tell you a story about the time I needed to get a soccer ball in my neighbor's yard but his dog chased me and I had to jump into a swimming pool to escape, and I began telling the story, you, hearing the words "soccer" and "neighbor" in the same sentence, might interrupt and mention that your childhood neighbor was Pele, the famous soccer player, and I might be courteous and say, Didn't he play for the Cosmos of New York? Did you grow up in New York? And you might reply that, no, you grew up in Brazil on the streets of Tres Coracoes with Pele, and I might say, I thought you were from Tennessee, and you might say not originally, and then go on to outline your genealogy at length. It's like being a passenger in your car who suddenly grabs the steering wheel and turns you down a side street. People, if you pay attention to them, change the direction of one another's conversations constantly. He tells the reader that he's staging this display so that Denny, who has been through so much in the last few years, will see that it's time to let Enzo go. I never deflect the course of the conversation with a comment of my own. Enzo, an elderly dog, is sprawled on the kitchen floor of his owner, Denny' s, apartment in a puddle of his own urine.
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