After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.
“I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.”
“IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.”