[ExI] why the book is better

Ben Zaiboc ben at zaiboc.net
Fri Dec 17 23:17:06 UTC 2021


On 17/12/2021 18:18, extropy-chat-request at lists.extropy.org wrote:
> n Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 10:15 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat 
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org 
> <mailto:extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>> wrote:
>
>     On 14/12/2021 16:40, billw asked:
>     > Trivia question:   Do you know of another movie in which the title
>     > character is never seen?  bill w
>
>     Ha, easy!
>
>     Gone with the Wind
>
>
> Eh.  The wind, not being sentient (so far as anyone can tell), would 
> not seem to count as a "character".


Bah. Spoilsport.

I will counter with the notion that nothing in a film is actually 
sentient. All pre-programmed, no response to stimuli at all.

Ben

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