Norton's Philosophical Memoirs

Now don''t start getting ideas. I am not a philosopher. I''m a dog. But I look like a philosopher, they say, and I''m not sure the distinction is as great as you might think. I''m what''s known as a Rhodesian Ridgeback. My forebears used to hunt lions in Africa, but I''m a modernized urban specimen. I don''t hunt much of anything.

I was born somewhere on the plains west of Uppsala, Sweden. In the ...