• Thing & Thing at the start. 

A movie ’about’ Growing Up & The Passage of Time in which more than a decade goes by & nothing ages but the moribund dog.

• Thing & Thing at the end.

Simpering pantomimes of caninophilia are vampiric animal-despising thuggery. Here is dreamed a universe in which pets are batteries, dutiful padding life-reservoirs from which humans drink. ‘Ageing’ is signified solely in the death & replacement of canis. To grow old in this place is not to alter, but to leave a growing trail of dog husks behind you.