and as they do so , they will probably not arrive at any more logical conclusions denying the importance of human life than the writer of this work -- life often fecund even in the least optimal places , free and stray as a bitch that alone , disoriented , emaciated in a hostile alley behind a convenience store , finds her bodily orifices sniffed and massaged by a competitor and foe , and soon begins an evanescent amity of several days , an intimate respite from the fears of daily survival , that leads to copulation , conception , and after a period of gestation , more litter on the streets of bangkok .