by Anna » Sat Jan 26, 2008 3:46 pm
It reminds me to a SF novell I did read once.
Olaf Stapledon "Siruis", - I hope that's also the english title.
Sirius is an intelligent dog on the level of a human being.
The married couple Mr. and Mrs Trelone decide to give Sirius a normal education together with their daughter.
Sirius suffers that he has no hands and he can't do simple things like every human.
Sirius is unique, the only one of his kind.
A wonderful book and a sad one, because of Sirus' life his lonliness and isolation.
Modern writers would create a story full of critics to the gentechs.
But this book here describes the life of an intelligent being in the companion of other intelligent beings but not to be a part of it, always a lifelong outsider.