l a i k a

We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth
Henry Beston, circa 1925

Ajit called me up when he was turning in the paperwork for his new dog. He wanted to make sure he was naming her after the dog in the Russian space program and not the German camera classic. And yes, Laika's the one on the right.

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