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For example, you may become suddenly aware that a city's time bar has been tolling, apparently without your notice, and then, surprisingly, you realize it has already tolled, say, five times. - (Plunder of Gor, Chapter 20, Sentence #204)

Indeed, did not men and women on my former world occasionally, however irrationally, chat pleasantly to their animals, as though such animals might comprehend their words? Does not such persiflage please the master or mistress, and the beast, as well, welcoming such sounds, however ignorant it might be of the content of such a discourse?" It was only when they had passed us, moving north on Emerald, that I became very frightened. Surely what I had heard were animal noises, but, in retrospect, there was something very unusual about them. Somehow, they seemed not altogether like animal noises. For example, you may become suddenly aware that a city's time bar has been tolling, apparently without your notice, and then, surprisingly, you realize it has already tolled, say, five times. You heard it without realizing that you were hearing it, and then, later, you recall what you were earlier unaware you were hearing. What had occurred was a bit like this. Noises emanated from the beast, which noises, as I expected, were taken as simple animal noises, and dismissed as such, but, a moment later, as the hair rose on the back of my neck and on my forearms, I no longer heard them as simple animal noises. - (Plunder of Gor)