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Jun 2023
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Inanimate Objects Aren't Inanimate (Or O...

Joshua Schrei
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In the myths and fairytales, everything teems with sentience and agency... Everything is alive. There are talking trees and singing stones and hedges that move of their own will. Mirrors speak. Swords dance. There are flying carpets and far-seeing spyglasses and cloaks and boots that leap by themselves. This pervasive insistence in the old stories that absol ... Show More
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