View Pit Stop page for race #530 by liftler — Ghost race
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Official speed | 89.95 wpm (85.25 seconds elapsed during race) |
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Race Start | May 22, 2020 4:18:30pm UTC |
Race Finish | May 22, 2020 4:19:56pm UTC |
Outcome | No win (3 of 5) |
Accuracy | 97.0% |
Points | 178.39 |
Text | #4180582 (Length: 639 characters) It wasn't that I had anything against the movies, but they had never been very important to me, and not once in more than fifteen years of teaching and writing had I felt the urge to talk about them. I liked them as everyone else did - as diversions, as animated wallpaper, as fluff. No matter how beautiful or hypnotic the images sometimes were, they never satisfied me as powerfully as words did. Too much was given, I felt, not enough was left to the viewer's imagination, and the paradox was that the closer movies came to simulating reality, the worse they failed at representing the world - which is in us as much as it is around us. |