disc@houxz.UUCP (S.BERRY) (04/17/84)
Does your machine REALLY eat lines? Mine only gets parts of I don't know how to tell you this, but I think you should know that Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Captain Kirk, the Enterprise, the Death Star, etc. DON'T ACTUALLY EXIST! They are all imaginary. All of the episodes of Star Trek, including the movies, and all three Star Wars movies are FICTION! Nawwww, I don't believe it for a minute. Next thing, you'll be trying to convince me that Santa and the Easter Bunny don't exist...Sheeeeeit! ...we (or at least I) like to pretend that there is a universe in which the story takes place that has these physical laws. Some of us also like to pretend that there are RATIONAL explanations for what are obviously oversights and inconsistencies by authors who don't bother to look ahead to the ramifications of their plots (an impossibility given the sharpies in this group). We delight in trying to come up with these explanations as an exercise in imagination and (in the case of differing viewpoints) the fine art of persuasion. I seem to recall an article in either this group or net.startrek some months ago which defends this feeling more eloquently than I can. I like to call the practice "suspension of suspension of disbelief" I hope that this explanation was not too technical for you to understand. If you have any more questions, find a 12 year old science fiction fan and have him explain it to you. I won't comment here except to say I resemble that remark (you can only take sarcasm so far...) SJBerry
notes@iuvax.UUCP (04/18/84)
#R:houxz:-74100:iuvax:5800011:000:165 iuvax!apratt Apr 17 14:14:00 1984 I agree with what my opponent says. I can only add that I might sue this infidel for definition of character. -- Allan Pratt ...ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!apratt
fair@dual.UUCP (Erik E. Fair) (04/21/84)
Boy, what a killjoy! Has to take EVERYTHING so SERIOUSLY! Erik E. Fair ucbvax!fair fair@ucb-arpa.ARPA dual!fair@Berkeley.ARPA {ihnp4,ucbvax,cbosgd,decwrl,amd70,fortune,zehntel}!dual!fair Dual Systems Corporation, Berkeley, California