Judge Caldwell, a comfortably married man for 30 years, has an affair; his stepdaughter comes home after being denied tenure at Harvard; and Judge Caldwell learns of the death of a Dutch philosopher-semanticist. What does all this have to do with a dog? Thereby hangs the tale.
Judge Caldwell, a comfortably married man for 30 years, has an affair; his stepdaughter comes home after being denied tenure at Harvard; and Judge Cal...