Maia (novel) natural objects, and sexual terms; the last "allows adults to leave the book within reach of children." Some are also used in "Shardik". "The New Yorker" quipped that though Maia's career as a Playboy Bunny was reminiscent of "Watership Down", she seemed more like a fish, and her swimming "changes... much more than her career". It said "Mr. Adams's artistry distinguishes his work from those didactic fantasies which border on science fiction"; instead the aim was entertainment, as shown in the elaborate settings, and the reader has no reason to put the book down. Maia (novel) Maia is a fantasy
The Lives of Animals of Animals" appears again in Coetzee's novel "Elizabeth Costello" (2003). Coetzee's novella discusses the foundations of morality, the need of human beings to imitate one another, to want what others want, leading to violence and a parallel need to scapegoat non-humans. He appeals to an ethic of sympathy, not rationality, in our treatment of animals, to literature and the poets, not philosophy. Costello tells her audience: "Sympathy has everything to do with the subject and little to do with the object ... There are people who have the capacity to imagine themselves as someone else, there are people who have