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Sue Coe: Pit's Letter
All images copyright © Sue Coe, 1998

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Synopsis: Pit's Letter describes the journeys taken both together and separately by a boy and his dog. The boy grows up to be a biology student and a scientist; he and the dog are unwillingly parted; they will meet again, but only after the dog has become a laboratory subject and the scientist has been fatally infected with a "hot" virus. The cycle depicted in Pit's Letter pays homage to a 1751 series by William Hogarth (1697-1764): The Four Stages of Cruelty. see also, from The Private and Public Life of Animals (1842) The Adventures of a French Cat, illustrations by J. J. Grandville
Puppy Their First Little Murder It's a Wonderful Life She Smells Bad The Sacrifice Dissection Class Ambition She is a "Retard" and Will Never Tell	Fight to the Death Winner Takes All The Father Animal Control Death Row Dogs Flick of a Switch The Fate of the Abandoned	Eden Biotechnologies Ltd. "Getting it Right from the Start" Scientists Find a Cure for Empathy The Dream Upper and Lower Primates Testing on Prisoners Resurrected For Science Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die	Found They Were Interested in My Case Therapy Animals Visit the Hospice The Autopsy Moths Flying into the Moon "It's Cold and They Don't Have Their Coats"

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