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The condition of a small red dog is one of paddling without encountering resistance. He moves through a living room on a loop — investigating here, cascading off the couch there, sprawling under the table, beginning a new circuit down the hallway — interested in boundaries and their maintenance, the possibility of originality within confinement, in repe…