Investigations of a Dog How sew my ife has changed, and yet how unchanged ic 4s emained a oom When I think bck and rel the ine vwhca Twas sla member of the caine community, shasing in 2s preseapatons, + dog among dog Ind on ene ex tucon that from the very beginning Lscaed some dcreponey, some lle maadjumen,entsng sigh feeling of dacomfore ‘which at even the most decorous pale funeions coud elimi ae; more the sometines, no at sometimes, but very often, the mere lak of some flow dog of my own etl that {was fond of, the mere look of him, af U had just cage i forthe ‘Em tne, woul ll me wih helpless enbarrainent and ea, even with dea Tred to gist my apprehensions sv bo ould frend to whom 1 divulged they helped es more peaceful ines came-tines ce in wich chs sudden su Pies were not lacking, Dot in which they were accepted with boar philosophy, fie into my life with more plewophy, inducing eran stanly and lethargy ir may Be, bat Bev ertcle allowing net cart ona somnewhat cl eserves Shy, and eating br all hings considered normal enough dog. Ho inded, thot thee breathing spell could T hae reached the age thi I enjoy at pre; how could Ihave fughe ny way trough to the sceity wath which [contemplate the tezros of youth and endure te terors fag; how oul T have come whe pot where Tam able to draw the consequences of sny admizedly untappy, on to putt mre rately no ery appy cppostion, ant ve smo ene in accordance with chem Salary and withdrew, with nahin fo occupy me Sa ‘my hopcls bug fara Tam concerned, iene le ‘esas that show Ive; ye in my dane Reet T have tir les sigh of my people, news often penetrates foe, and now and then {even fer tews of mye each then. The thes feet ne wit eect bu do mot underand my way of ie, yee a8) Invesicavions ov 4 Doe Lazo they bear me no grudge, and even young dogs whom I some- tine ce pang inthe tance, new generation of whose Childhood {have ony 4 vague memory, do ng Seay Me 3 e¥- creel grec Fer fist ot be ssmed that, forall my pcan, which i ope othe days Tam so vey diferent rm he es of Iny see Indnd when reflect on aa have dine and i postin and capac enough fr that_T se thar dogdom sa ther way a marvelous inion, Apart rom w dog thee ae Allsrs of cetoresin the world, receded, Gam ee {ures who have no language but mechanical rey many oft dog uy then, have ven hem eames ty to hep them, ed cae he uplift themand 0 on For my prt Tam ite in fern co them excope when they ty eo Gan me T eonfse them with one aneter, Tgoore them, Bat one ing i to chris vo have escaped me ately ow ie inclined they ae, compared wich ts ogy to sick tater, bow snl and un fanarly and with wha cross sig they ps cah ther ty only che bse of interests can bind them ogetir fora Tein oseible union 2nd ow often thee very ier give fhe ted and confi, Conier tx dogs onthe other hand! One ean sly sy that we al live together in» eral ep, all tofu diferent we ae from one soother on account of tm Beres and profound modifeaons which have aren inthe couse ofits Allin one heap! We ae den each other and toshng can preven from syn tat communal impulse, Ton fave and insecons, he fo tse sil now nthe inay tha have fongecen, go back o this loging forte gree ts bie we ae capable of he warm comfort of bing together oc aow consider the hereof the picture No erature tny Inowlege lve in such wide daperson as we do, none Ravesotany datnetins of elas, of Kind of occupation, si incon to mumerows to review a 4 ane; we whose one Gest iso sick rogther—and agin and agin we ceed tramcendent momen in qe of cventing_—we above all ‘ihe live 40 "widely scart from one anoter, engaged Srunge vocations tht ate often Incompreherable even fo our(280) Fraxe Karea canine neighbor, holding firmly co laws that are nor those of the dog world, bur are actualy direeed agune i. low balling these questions arg, questions on which one would prefer not to touch—T undersdd that sendpoine too, even better than my ‘own—and yer questions o which I have completly capitulated Woy do I not doa the others live in harmony with my people and acceptin silence whatever diss the harmony, ignoring ie 5a smal err in the grt account, always keeping in mind the ‘hings tha bind us happy together, ot those that drive us again and again as hough by sher lores out of our social crle? ean recall an incident ia my youth Iwasa the tae in one ‘of those inexplicable blissful states of exaltation which everyone ‘must have experienced as. child Twa ill qui a puppy, every thing pleased me, vesyehing was my concer. I beleved that great things were going on around me of which [was the leader 4nd to which [ust lend any voiee, things which must be wrerh ely thrown aside if cid not run for chem and wig my til for them-—childsh fancases that faded with riper years Hut at the time their power was very grea, I was completely under their spell, and presenly something acsully did happen, some. thing so excraneinary that i Seemed to justify my wild expects Sons. In self ie wat nothing very extraordinary. for T have seen many such thing, and more remarkable things too, often enough since, but atthe time e struck me wih all the force of 2 first impreson, one of those impressions which can never be ‘erased and influence much of one later conduct. I encountered Jn shor, aicle company of dogs or rather I did not encounter them, chey appeared before me. Before that [had been sunning along in dackness for some time, fled with a premonition of {grat things —a premonition that may well have been delusive, for I always had tT had rani darks for a long time, up and down, blind and deaf to everything, led on by nothing but a vague desice,and now I suddenly came co a sop with the feling that I was ia the righe place, and looking up saw that it was brighe day. only lide hazy, and everywhere a blending snd confusion of the mos ncorcatng smells I greeted the morning with an uncersin barking, whenae if Thal conjured them vp Invrsricarions oF 4 Doe 2] —out of some place of darkness, tothe accompaniment of terti- blesounds such as [had never heard before, seven dogs stepped iu the light. Had I or dscincaly Seen that chey were dogs and that they thenselves brought che sound with them—ehough 1 could not recognize how they produced ie—I would have run tay at once, but as fe was T stayed. At that time [still knew hardly anything of the cressive gift for monic with which the ‘canine race alone is endowed, t had naturally eaotgh ceaped my but slowly developing powers of observation; for though mc had surfounded me as a perfecdynarural and indispens- ble clement of extence ever since Iwas a suckling, an element which nothing impelled me to distinguish from the rem of cexitence, my elders had drawn my attention to it only by soch hint as were suitable for a childish understanding; all the more sstmithing, then, indeed devaxating, were these seven great ‘ical artes to me, They didnot spel, they didnot sing, they remained generally silent, almos determinedly sient; bor from the empey air chey conjured music, Everything was music, the feng and sewing down oftheir feet, cetsin curs ofthe head, thei running and thee standing sl, the postios they took up in ration to one another, the symmetrical pateras which they Produced by one dog sting is front paws on the back of 20- ther and the res following sit unl the fist bore the weight ofthe other sx, or by all lying fa on the ground and going theeugh complicated concerted evolutions, snd none made & false move, no even the last dog hough he was 2 lcde unsure, did noe always eaablsh contac at once with the avers, sme ‘ims hesitated si were, onthe stroke ofthe beat, but yet was tansare only by comparison withthe supeeb sureaes ofthe oth fr and even if he had been mach mote unsure indeed quite nme, would not have been able to do any harm, the othes, great masters all of them, Keeping the shythen so vshakably. TBucie i too much co say hat leven sw them, that I actually even saw them. They appeared from somewhere, [inwardly freted them as dogs and although T was profoundly confosed by the sounds chat accompanied them, yee they weere dogs nev- crtiles, dogs ike you and me; I regarded them by force of1 Feast Karna hai simply as dogs I had happened ro meet on my road, and faa wih o approach them and exchange greetings they were quite nex coo dogs much older than tes cera, and nor my wooly long-haired kind, but yt nos very seni oe and shape indeed quite fama rome, fr I had alreay seen many sich or sini dogs boc while I as sil ivoled ia these sions the usc gradually gor the wpper hand, Iterally Anocked the breath ou of me and svept he faraway fone shore acual Hele dogs, and quite agaist my wil, whe T howled if some pain were bog infced opon me, my mind could ated to nothing bu this la of muse which comet come fom all is, rom the high rom the dep, from er cxywhere, surrounding te lcene, over heing ha craig him, and oer his swooning body sll Bowing fanfare so nes tha they seamed far sway and ano nade. And then «fo pt cme for oe wa day to exhausted tne no fecle often any Longs respite exe ant bebeld sain che seven lide dogs carrying ‘oot ther evolucons, makin eit laps Tonge to shou other in pte ofthat slo em to bg che elghen me fo ak them what they were doing] wk 2 child and believed T could as anybody about anything —bot hardy had T begun, harly did fe op good and feat doggish teoms with the seven, when the music started agin robbed me of my wit, whised me around tts cies tT Ine were one ofthe mailns instead of bag only tha c= tm, cat me hither and thither, ao macer how much T begged for metey, and rescued me fly from its ovm violence by driving me imo a labyrinth of wooden bars which rose mound that place, hoogh Lad not noced ic before. but which ovr fly caught me, hepe my ead presed to the ground, and though the muse il tsounded inthe open spce behind me, gave me fete tine to get my breath back Ts admit that ‘sles surprised bythe ary ofthe seven dogs tw Comprebeable wo ste, and alo gute defintely beyond my ex packieschan by tht courage a facing vo opal the mug of ther own making, and their power to endure cmly wat clpsing. Boe now fom my hiding hole I saw, on Woking Investiaations oF 4 Doo 255) mor: closely, cat ic was not 5» much coolness the most ex- twee tension thar characterized thir performance; these limbs apperenly so sure in their movements quivered at every sep ‘witha perpetal apprehensive itching; se rigid with despa the dogs kept ther eyes xed on one another, and sheie tongues, ‘whenever the tension weakened for a moment, hung wearily from thei jowls. Fe could not be fear of failure that agicned then so deeply; dogs that could dare and achieve such things had to reed co fest chat. Then why were they afraid? Who then forced them to do what they were doing? And I could 10 Tonge resrain myself, parculrty as they now seemed in some incomprehensible way in aced of help, and so through all the din of te music I shouted out my questions loudly and challeng- ingly. But chey-increible! increible!—they never replied be- aval as if T were noe there. Doge eho make no reply tthe agreeing of other dogs are guty of an offense agsinse good mansers which the humblese dog would never pardon any sore than the greatest. Perhaps they were not dogs a all? But how should they nor be dogs? Could I not aewally hear on listening sore closely the subdued cries with which they encouraged cach other, deew each others atetion to difcntes, warned ach other agains errors could T aot se the las and youngest dog, to whom mos: of those criss were addresed, often sealing a glace at me aif he would have dearly wished to reply, but refrained because ic was not allowed? Bu why should i aoe be alloved, why should the very thing which our laws uncond- tionally command noe be allowed in this one ease? I became Jndignane at the thought and almoer foogor the music. Those dogs were violating the lw, Grest magicians they aight be, bot ‘he iw was valid for them to, 1 knew that quite well though | was 1 ehld. And having recogaized that, I now noticed some: thing else. They had good grounds for remaining see, that i, suing that they remained slent from a sense of shame. For howe were they conducring themselves Because ofall the music Thad not noticed i before, but chey had Bung away all shame, the wretched creatures were doing the very thing which s both ‘mos ridiculous and indecent in our eyes; they were walking onirrally appalled as if at an hastily raised thee legs sgn, and thec eyes seemed to be begging for forgiveness for having ‘een forced to cease rom their abomination. Was ey wer further sn, “And old dogs to! And old dogs co myself. Bu scarely was I fee and 0 haps the real melody in the mids of the musc—had not now rung out, forcing me to y knees. Oh, the music chese dogs made almost drove me ot 1 20 ‘go on raising their others othe in of se ide myself sl tan Twas, I whimpered, and if the dogs though of thei performance, probably T would have had nota word to say agains ic. Besides, ie was not long before the dogs vanished with all dheir mas and their radiance iato the Isvesricarions of 4 Doo ey musi, unforcunately his questions: Were theyFraxe Karca Tepe om an cody T mast regard to the iy else, but very reson T was might appy life of ilfrence ots very pret —labred inthe years Since go on laboring : be i, There are move important things perhaps I have the prospect of far more Dear, but which ings; there was no ny d Tegan to inquire 2 by no means 2 simple question, of ws since the dawn of ation, countless obse subject have been publ Now that & if cours; i has Isvesrications oF 4 Dos bs in ts prodigious compass henson of any sgl scholar, bu of ‘burden which cannot be borne ex- ‘expt by the whole of the dog commaniry, and even then with kcal = rotaity, for it ever hertance ich the mother wean her young one from her teats and fem ox into the world: "Water the ground ae mach at igs ae are-dogs Tt concerns our main sxple of true, we have also othe resources but only at pinch and che yea isnot too bad we could live onthe main sale of oor food this food we find on the earth, but the earth needs ont water to nourish ir and only at cha price provides us with our food, the emergence of be forgoren, can also spoine Quite honest ion to be po- cali, o co pose as being inthe right against the majoreys Iam “aly oo happy when I can agree with my comrades, 8 T doin8) under theie noses whenever Fave Karna Ixvasriaarions oF & Doo then, cha 1a that they regarded a so clever? No, my questions them and were generaly looked ox fru because Tate tho quest Sree sen. That ws these peed thee—the ‘cour everywhere 20 pach. They did noe — ace war sharpened ‘became clear tome tha it was T who was trying to seduce the others, and tha ‘esful up to 4 cerain point Only with at that, a8 I very ‘hat [ cared for was except 1 appeal in the wideown that we know infinitely more t food can be found, dog, you ask, you beg. nea sorpnes de cr eveything a i achiting an ‘one ching that or loud, che only ed your powers of ed lances, 00 was when, see on cll gue ore than they a : in har thr dene Dovel onary Crane ‘whole ith shoald be more Ft should be proved chat fans of exiene, if the Invesricarions oF 4 Doo ive way tooo {sh ince you do noe dese to live as you are comps eproach agains che others that yours?” Easy to answer; Be ie profundity, watch the labor tf ther construction, thar dark labor, and expect allthis co be forsaken, neglected, undone, Task a question? [No, that I euly expece no longer. I understand 1 dogs, fam flesh of ther Hes, of their miserable, ever-renewed, ever- sions es Bat ie ci cancing of al the et of al dogs ‘quite lone, Tap Sif L waned to feed on the mareFaaxe Kare will pot up 3 grescer questions. shall very Silence, indeed almost pea save taken more and more toasting up looking for the deckive, the fundamen, error chit Invasriaarion when ones making one's ow ngs necary a ws not sle E aos dente fo the dog nature by 9 : tion, and insignificant postion ofthese available ele thae Lean quot is that ed and simply refused co believeFranz Kara Investicarions oF 4 Doo ch my own eyes and no prejudices wy could cake me, is senseless word more feerered my powers senseless rumors, f hee exience Ihave been uf chey oceupy an import ice nor, of senseless, the have no relation same effect. And perhaps ne, bot to yield to public stimPraxz Karna to tolerate them. far, and yet the de- foundation in wniversl dog nature. new soaring dogs invariably know where they manage to enc (great dog world, and even {elves out of nothingnes, then t00 can live in the confidence thac [am noe quite forlorn. Cersnly the fate of types like mine rms be a strange one, and che extence complacenly fo ‘while they descend co takes 2 minute or two, a few mincing strats ‘eter be able to recognize them. We ate the dogs gh i, thrive on very strong, one ties ss every attempt. What help, then, ‘What kindof a in pice of ever My own though hat per ‘questions [ mighe find m te, with gree sef-cone the annoyance I fele when I was ineerrapted by perpetal ques tion that T mostly could nor answer myself: forthe only ching fro obrain answers M a he i young, about, are you to for the sake ofthe comfort. st emp life ‘not withour =| posting up a ager to ask quest tmany questions are g ‘gestions? One qu har coun, bur that is Ad besides, ies a peculiarity of y ask chem confused all together, i 635 fi cy were tying to ob ons, No, ny real colleagues are Youthful questioner, and just as ide an si the old and lenPraxz Karen ow belong. Bur what good are all these question, for they have failed me i apparently my colleagues eer dogs than I, and have recourse to other excellent ds cha enable them to bear chis ertheless I can eis by no means easy, and when one has 2 main, namely 10 apply body ean help, almnose 0 sign of their success. T am Lean hope t recog very hour brings new tsk, ‘pectic problems, ao one ean thing for good a B their succes, Yes, thats the burden we often bark 00, thong T do tore improbable. When an amase myself, drawing on my fn sired hang of| trails ef disease, For a long ‘were to praise someone be y solder, and in consequence con rearer and nearer to death Wi speed. That it 8 rarral nd moreover an ich I find nod tm pense, I can only se decline everywhere, in saying which, bowever, I do not m fr generations were exen- beter than ou ough; ere, he is nd enough a these things go hece, and T could from him but is that I stons, and 1 ‘learsighted in ngey sp rican phrase and we wi sve did not fel the weg thjection I may have to my age former us No, whateverFranz Kare Ievesrioartons oF 4 Di shpat es he mods by which che diet nds and greater abundance. the earth brings forth ll food, of fe generally im their own way, tha cae I ned not have sever Teoald have remained qvi preven futher inquiry. Take ano y- IF we were to be quite ‘was stupid ro ose fore. cs that isnot what igh, at leas when he outing and singing, i realy sme exclosively a comes I shall sip away, oF prerene unl he ops Also my researches have arth, of course, deaws one kind of {oth thie kind of food so. Whet food ont of ielf and calls down ano cesentildiference, and Science, bem than my work tnd chat nator of stength hat | 3g at variance with achieved something anprec our principles, and that every Surely recalls now as an uncaneed, Peavz KarKa the food appeared in greter ab Isvrstioations ov 4 Doc £ then again ew ‘eco unknown in a young experiments, fancied chat fot lead me farther, but then it lost itself again in obscurity. My inadequate grounding in scence also undoubtedly held me up here. What guarantee had thatthe absence of the food was not caused by’ umscentife preparation of the ‘ground racer than by my experiments and sea should be #, Ta certain egcumsances I fad succeeded only once in bringing rd incamation without preparing the to extract food by an inca Vareempeed rng quite perfect, for ic is my fixed moun of ground-prepacation i always Thereics who deny this ae righ the wateringFaaxe Kare cred aneasy tention, Ifnd my a ye accesible wo my questions, I eould se in their eyes 4 even if i was nothing more others discov others far more co ale all. Ie only prove Bt also at So there Iwas Ife with my iscouraged, I was t0 y ‘ {arther; ro see the food before one 1 up indefinitely. Bor 0 fst completely at 2 the same time avoid all sight of ‘were to withdrasr myself inthis man- near the ground were ‘hac were to happen, thea, Invasticarions oF 4 Doo en if since wat not sn pad the other dogs sy, Yo would be r mid chat pevesed eal day from Bs a moreover, whether it be ‘ot sleep at all—and chat everything much harder—for T most not only conjure the food down from the ait, but aso be on my sleep when i arived; yee on the other hands 3 Tavould manage co fastScienrife worker. sciences here ingly in my cars selt-pty there ‘confessed was no forward 10 my by our tha Prana Karka the proverbial ses thoughts I begged forgiveness of y fs hunger. My 1 begun ro weep wi for when I was Investications oF 4 Doc have no recovered begin eo fall a che fp weaker appeal a eed, probably force me 1 fast Teen mecesary the ft te. 1 think ot been wanting ia cally got my teed into ultimate effort, se gone forever All somes ofdog could oe to get up and soe tour on the f heard noises during ny Franz Karea Twas wed fseres of mind sought re in familia sence ‘no longer Invasrio¢rions oF 4 Doo 1 the fancy that I would never beable ed ees, for — Seemed o be seized by the general frenzy, ss attempes to save hat | had ply ove of fear lest T might to leave it. My las ope, pts undertaken in child "was the hoor of deadly own their value, bot1 Faas Karna 1 ot ward oe fore Sword of fasehoud, here tare Ica the tus noe eren fom fachoo, Pehap the ath was forsaken, hereon, thon was sanding filled wi and all the louder a5 1 leave you the lrfl. Don't T please you fed ro make bi suddenly seemed to see ‘ginning, c was grow- that this hound had the power to 1 day!" mart gosbul Beane Karea yeu" “You're beginning already.” I sid. “No,” he Yet: Bo be prepared © deny then T though I saw "sid, ee something such rertheles a sort of grandeur and that Thave carried over into petiod of fasting, and shows atleast how far beyond ourselves And [was ching 0 my xt carried my researches into music, Tre, ile in this sphere ether, the science of informed, is perhaps sll more compre~ in any cate eablshed lined by the face that F zasion, while in the province of achieve practical ress. 1 muse i accorded greter ex why the former has never penetrated so deeply into the people. T myself fle less arraceed to too young at se ey eve cone © m en y a frm about these dogs was forth ther sence com ‘So for pene stenton. T called down, have neve sero is sphere cannot even cot the clas on whom science 1 cof ofthat, un T could noe pass racy selene examination st by an autor fon che subject. OF course, quite apart rca = sion iar found in ted powers ofFran Kara one. IFT wanted to beag 1 ‘ie was ths very instiner that invaigared my scen- A Little Women th the ordinary led simple, ‘vel she ie aways inthe cd geayish-yellow sof trimmed disreely wi he never wears a hat, her dal, fair hair is smooth ot wor very loose. Although she i tn ligh in her movemenc ctl 5 the quickness, she loves to put her h ‘turn the upper par of her body sideways w Sudeanese tha is surprising. The me can convey only by saying that swith the separate Singer so sharp other as hers and yet her hand has mean peri ‘science inself, but a different science from tote science—pize freon higher tan everything se Fre- sho! Certainly sch freedom pole ody tra wretched brsines, Bor neverle ecm nevertleaposeson Translated by Wills and Basin Muir her hips ft ito the smallest of small piece parately assed, every sap 0 ne. All she has Tam, and which iy her torments sean end. Tam aot thinking of myseif, Lam quite lav ne face that I find her atiende of course 8. ‘ont of accom bocsnse [recognize that ore nothing to the suffering she endures. All the