081013 #dog *It's kind of a "can you help the mouse get to the cheese" type of situation. Because here's the mouse, he's happy-enough-looking, got a big old goofy mouse grin on his fiz, but there's these two cats stationed on the outside of the maze, so he can't go around to the right and he can't go around to the left, and he can't go under or over because he lives on and in a piece of paper and is only effectively two-dimensional after all. He could just walk right over the lines of the maze, but his eyes won't let him—they see that entrance hearkening back to his days of abundant pellets and strokes from the pussy, and they just have to start roving in, further in, to try and figure it out. So that's where we are. At the entrance to the maze.*