Our incessant use of the word "we" throughout this site refers solely to the two figures shown at left. Thus, when "our" or "us" or some such collective noun is deployed here, a collection no larger than these two so pictured is intended. It is not the editorial "we," much less the royal "we" we mean when we say "we." Oh no, not at all.

The dog shares with all his kind a keen sense of smell and a lack of color vision. The other has an easygoing solipsism and a taste for nicotine. He speaks for the dog.

The dog is currently dead; the other, not half the man and at least twice the age depicted.

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