Quote by George Murray

I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me.

I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge a

Summary

This quote reflects the nature of human imagination and the tendency to assign human-like thoughts and intentions to inanimate objects. The speaker humorously expresses their paranoia regarding their refrigerator potentially affecting their creative process. But what surprises them even more is the idea that their fan, an object that serves a completely different purpose, might have some kind of awareness or consciousness about their existence. The quote highlights the quirks of the human mind and the amusing imaginings we can have about everyday objects.

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Poetry

By George Murray

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