In 'Two Wild Animals, Seven Crazies' Annie Dillard is aghast that its 'grotesque modernist characters' that are the narrators of stories and no humans.
In The Edge of precipice, author Paul Socken, refers to Frye's thoughts that As civilisation develops, we become more preoccupied with human life. Frye was more worried for the loss of myths, heroes and ghosts of past. But I do not know if he would welcome 'the cows, mental defectives, toddlers, dinosaurs, paranoid schizophrenics, dying cripples, breasts, axolotls, Neanderthals or goats' that Dillard refers to in her essay.
Skinny legs and All is the first book where I read of inanimate things as narrators.
The List of Untalkables from Dillard seems more like characters from Children's Literature.The Mountain and the Squirrel
If the spoon ran away with the dish, there must have been some shared words among them.
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