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Do stones, ‘inanimate objects,’ have spirit? – Not in the sense of spiritus (breath). Nor in the sense of spirit opposed to matter (§3.9). And yet, all beings are enworlded with a prismatic god, and so can be accompanied by attendant spirits.
— Animation or animacy needn’t be thought of as motion or change in spatial location, nor as animus (breath); animacy can be thought of as the dynamism of particular appearance reaching out and withdrawing. A form of communication: contexts encounter on the hinge of what is common before releasing each to each.
The metaphoric communication of particular dynamic intensities is animacy.