Notes, Notings, and Common Refrains

*my shiny thoughts are purring*

I'm guessing it's easier for most children to anthropomorphise animals than inanimate objects.

Yes, certainly.

I think one reason I find Theodore so compelling is that the set is a scale model of an actual, working harbor (Halifax) and the remote control puppets are moving over actual water (a filled in swimming pool at an old abandoned school), so it transports me back to a time when I was four (or so), looking out the car windows as I drove past factories and harbors and riversides.

It is certainly easier to see any moving thing as alive, and a creature with its own volition when the actual agent of movement is invisable, just as a creature's mind is invisable. So if you can see the horse and driver of a wagon, you can easily tell that the object and the creature are seperate entities, the way you can't with a car.

*Notes that ships and boats have been personified since long before engines, so there's that*

*Notes, also, that she has been known (even as a fully rational adult) to yell at books and other things that drop from her hands.*