#53299 - Though he was not spared from an initial agonizing humiliation on being introduced to a new life of permanent nudity and consequent exploitation as a sex toy, Jeff came through training and acquired habit to live with comparative happiness for almost a year in his new home. He scarcely had power of attention now to catch the jeers and the gleeful chatter of his master’s neighbors and friends or really to hear and take in the sadistic irony of his chef-hatted owner’s pretended sympathy in his ongoing half-whispered, chuckle-interrupted talking to or at Jeff as the cook occasionally prodded or shook on salt. The surrounding economic and political situation had cooperated in sealing his once unconceived-of, inconceivable fate.