The twentieth century has built up a powerful set of intellectual shortcuts and devices that help us defend ourselves against moments when clouds suddenly appear to think.

Charles Baxter

Tags: writing sanity anthropomorphization consensual-reality pathetic-fallacy

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There are talking dogs all over the place, unbelievably boring they are, on and on and on about sex and shit and smells, and smells and shit and sex, and do you love me, do you love me, do you love me.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Tags: dogs anthropomorphization anthropomorphism dogs-speak dogs-humour anthropomorphizing

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