View Pit Stop page for race #454 by chriswck — Ghost race
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Official speed | 84.50 wpm (90.75 seconds elapsed during race) |
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Race Start | July 12, 2020 3:55:18pm UTC |
Race Finish | July 12, 2020 3:56:48pm UTC |
Outcome | Win (1 of 4) |
Accuracy | 98.0% |
Points | 167.59 |
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. |