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You heard it without realizing that you were hearing it, and then, later, you recall what you were earlier unaware you were hearing. - (Plunder of Gor, Chapter 20, Sentence #205)

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. Without thinking, I must have processed those noises, and, doubtless, substituted phonemes for phonemes, much as one might accommodate oneself to an unusual accent, one which at first seems incomprehensible, but, after a moment, or two, the adjustments made, becomes intelligible. - (Plunder of Gor)