“Dad, did the ancient peoples have minds like ours?”

“No son, you see, we don’t have minds. We have cartoons of them. The ancient peoples had what we have cartoons of, and the reason they lived so deeply and passionately was that their minds were as broad and powerful as all of nature, whereas our cartoons are only as deep or as utilitarian as flat sketches of possible concrete functions of representational intellect.”

“Sh*t, seriously?”

“Seriously. And yeah, excrement is copiously involved.”

— overheard nearby