It's Robin and James' 5th wedding anniversary so he's filled her car with presents and sneaked into the kitchen to cook her a slap-up dinner. But he's been "away" for a while and it's safe to say she's not expecting it, the contours of their relationship slowly becoming evident as pieces of the jigsaw are retrospectively added. As it suggests in its title, Rosalind Blessed's
The Delights of Dogs and the Problems of People thus contrasts the complexity of entangling oneself with another human compared to the simplicity of connecting with canine friends.