August 25th 2008 11:56 pm
Impossible Things excerpt
My theory of the facial muscles doesn’t really hold water, of course. Cats can’t smile either, and they come through. Smugness, slyness, disdain—all of those expressions come through beautifully, and they don’t have any muscles in their faces, either, so maybe its love that you can’t capture in a picture because love was the only expression dogs were capable of.
From “The Last of the Winnebagos” by Connie Willis, reprinted in Impossible Things
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