An interesting part of the universe

 Muriel Rukeyser said:

The universe is made of stories,

not of atoms.

 

That implies that a part of the universe is made up of dog stories.

Montaigne, following Plutarch, tells the story of an Athenian dog that pursued a temple burglar all the way to Cromyon, between the Isthmus of Corinth and Megara. The dog followed the culprit, barking and refusing bribes of food. Plutarch says the guards finally caught up with the culprit by following the stories.

• Sources: Muriel Rukeyser’s poem “The Speed of Darkness” is at the Poetry Foundation’s site:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56287/the-speed-of-darkness

Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays, translated by M.A. Screech; London: Penguin Books, 1993, p. 531. The story is in the long essay “An apology for Raymond Sebond.”