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<text id=92TT1235>
<title>
June 01, 1992: Reviews:Books
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
June 01, 1992 RIO:Coming Together to Save the Earth
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
REVIEWS, Page 86
BOOKS
Pet Tricks
</hdr><body>
<p>By AMELIA WEISS
</p>
<p> TITLE: What the Dogs Have Taught Me
AUTHOR: Merrill Markoe
PUBLISHER: Viking; 233 pages; $18
</p>
<p> THE BOTTOM LINE: Flimsy when she talks about horoscopes
and cute guys. But where the dogs reign, Markoe shines.
</p>
<p> Top 10 reasons to read this book: 10. These funny essays
were written by the woman who invented Stupid Pet Tricks for
the David Letterman show (and won four Emmys) -- a woman who
was Letterman's longtime companion and who certainly deserves
our support.
</p>
<p> 9. During an election year, how novel to find someone who
is intentionally funny (and who also inhales).
</p>
<p> 8. Readers are taken on tours of pop-culture monuments:
the Las Vegas revue Nudes on Ice, for example, with its Act 5,
"A Russian Fantasy."
</p>
<p> 7. Unadventurous types can vicariously attend Markoe's
sessions in past-life regression without having to lay down any
nonregressed cash.
</p>
<p> 6. There are no pictures of Merrill naked, although she
does describe nudity at beaches in Malibu, Calif., where she
lives ("Do you really want to see your mailman with his clothes
off?" she asks. "I know I didn't").
</p>
<p> 5. Men and women who have never been to a men's-movement
convention in a large, open meadow can visit Iron Johns in
action. "I have to be Mr. Right for me before I can be Mr. Right
for someone else," says one.
</p>
<p> 4. Markoe never brags about famous men she's slept with,
although she has lain with several dogs ("4:10 p.m. We all
changed sides . . . 5:20 p.m. We all lay on our backs").
</p>
<p> 3. Finally, a chance to eavesdrop on intimate woman-dog
conversations:
</p>
<p> Merrill (to Bob the Dog): You have the nerve to discuss my
manners? Who drinks out of the toilet and then comes up and
kisses me on the face?
</p>
<p> Bob: That would be Dave.
</p>
<p> 2. You will gain an appreciation of the silly from which
you may never recover. You may begin to collect windup toys at
airports, catalogs of exotic nightwear, and unemployment ads for
stun-gun salesmen.
</p>
<p> And the No. 1 reason to read this book:
</p>
<p> Torrid glimpses into bestiality with swell dogs Bob, Stan
and Lewis, the new significant others of the '90s. If you're
looking for a committed relationship and a warm, muddy tongue
on a cold night, these are your boys. You do have to sleep under
the bed, but then all relationships take work.
</p>
</body></article>
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