“In man, social intercourse has centred mainly on the process of absorbing fluid into the organism, but in the domestic dog and to a lesser extent among all wild canine species, the act charged with most social significance is the excretion of fluid.”

—  Olaf Stapledon , book Sirius

Source: Sirius (1944), Chapter VIII Sirius at Cambridge (a passage supposedly written by Sirius)

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British novelist and philosopher 1886–1950

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