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Trying to get a few thoughts about dogs into coherent order after reading this incredible book: the life of Elizabeth Barrett's spaniel, Flush. People think you can only be a cat person or a dog person, but "I am large, I contain multitudes." Just as I love several people and several cities and several books so do I love dogs, I HAD dogs most of my life until I lived alone and then I needed cats. Spaniels, how we loved spaniels, maybe it was because my mother recommended this book to me since she loved it herself, my first dog was a purebred Cocker, my last dog was half Cocker half mongrel. Temperamental creature, she bit all new people and loved us madly. Enid Blyton was full of spaniels as well: Scamper and the rest, and Deborah Crombie's Gemma James is a fan. Spaniels maybe inspire more literature than the rest, they are among the most beautiful dogs in the world and one of the most popular, at a time Delhi was full of spaniels: mostly Cockers but also some Springers, but now, like the Pomeranian they have fallen out of fashion. One day, when we're old and moving around less, maybe I'll have a dog again, maybe I'll have three and one of them will be a Cocker Spaniel and I will call him Flush. #bookstagram #mrmbookclub#nowreading #158in2018

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