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I think you may just not be looking closely enough. Using your first example, here are things Mt. St. Helens is described as doing in just one contemporaneous a
by jxf 4y ago
I think you may just not be looking closely enough. Using your first example, here are things Mt. St. Helens is described as doing in just one contemporaneous article:
- roaring
- belching
- "[knocked down] millions of trees [...] like a giant playing pick-up sticks"
- slumbering
- menacing
That all sounds very anthropomorphic to me.
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- bell-cot 4y agoPoint, though my recollection (not gonna review 1,001 old articles on the eruption, to do stats) is that the anthropomorphic descriptions tended to be in "I was too damn close, and it was very scary" accounts. I won't look down at anthropomorphism in that case - it's likely a good reflection of the author's (or his source's) very human experience and emotional reactions to danger.