Animal Dreams Chapter 1

Homero: "The Night of All Souls"

• Doc Homer watches his daughters sleeping curled up like a couple of puppies.
• We learn that the girls' full names are Cosima and Halimeda.
• The girls are tuckered out from playing with the other kids on the Day of All Souls, a Spanish holiday where families decorate the graves of their ancestors and cover them with flowers.
• Doc, permanently anti-fun, decides the girls won't get to celebrate the holiday again, because the great-grandmothers in those graveyards are none of their beeswax.
• Looking at his daughters, Doc feels pain "for how close together these two are, and how much they have to lose" (1.6). Could that be foreshadowing? We sure hope not.