'as they put it' clearly shows the postmodern view of everything being relative
- God & Universe
- 'father lent me this'
- the is a god, but not capitalized, indicates non-Christian
- the god is only able to lend things out
- Humanity & Identity
- 'anybody who wanted to be called Rover, or Froufrou, or Polly, or even Birdie in the personal sense, was perfectly free to do so'
- everyone has the choice to choose their names
- names do not mean anything, it is all personal choice
- Conflict & Suffering
- 'These verbally talented individuals insisted that their names were important to them, and flatly refused to part with them.'
- some animals did not want to accept the uselessness of their names
- Hope & Redemption
- 'the attraction that many of us felt, the desire to smell one another's smells, feel or rub or caress one another's scales or skin or feathers or fur...'
- the hope comes in knowing that all feel the desire to be one with wach other
- Values & Relationships
- 'Most of them accepted namelessness with the perfect indifference with which they had so long accepted and ignored their names.'
- it was easy for those to let go of their values, when they didn't even value their own individuality
- Truth & Reality
- 'They seemed far closer than when their names had stood between myself and them like a clear barrier.'
- the truth is that everything is more united without their names, they are all able to be who they want to be
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