“Are you telling me that even though it’s changing every second, the sky is always a perfect sky?” There was some broken cirrus, way up high, the first bit of moonlight silvering the edges. “Look at the sky,” he said, and it was such a quick subject-change that I looked at the sky. “I’m not sure I want to be perfect and finished. It only knows Itself, and us in its likeness, perfect and finished.” The Is doesn’t even know about our illusions and games. A mother doesn’t care what part her child plays in his games one day bad-guy, next day good-guy. “Reality is divinely indifferent, Richard. “But it might as well be tomato sauce for the effect it has on our real life. “And nobody’s really hurt? That’s just tomato-sauce blood?” So you pay your nickel and you get your ticket and you settle down an forget what’s going on outside the theater an the movie begins for you.” any illusion requires space and time to be experienced. But in order to get caught up and swept away in it, in order to enjoy it to its most, you have to put it in a projector and let it go through the lens minute by minute. The film exists beyond the time that it records, and if you know what the movie is, you know generally what’s going to happen before you walk into the theater: there’s going to be battles and excitement, winners and losers, romance, disaster you know that’s all going to be there. “You can hold a reel of film in your hands,” he said, “and it’s all finished and complete – beginning, middle, end are all there that same second, the same millionths of a second. “Whatever we give our consent to put into our imagination?” It’s our imagination, no matter what you say.” Doesn’t matter much, does it? What’s the projector?” “And is that why movies are so popular? That we instinctively know they are a parallel of our own lifetimes?”
“Is that enough freedom for you ?” he said. “Who’s the cameraman, the projectionist, the theater manager, the ticket-taker, the distributor, and who watches them all happen? Who is free to walk out in the middle, any time, change the plot whenever, who is free to see the same film over and over again?” “Isn’t it strange how much we know if only we ask ourselves instead of somebody else? Who writes these movies, Richard ?” But a lot of people stay with the illusion even if it is boring, and they don’t want the lights turned on early.” “Space-time is a fairly primitive school.
“Right you are,” he said, pleased with me. They get their learning in different ways ?”
“Are there some people who never go movies ?” “Are there some people who don’t have any lifetimes at all in space-time ?”
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