Wildepad <noreplies> wrote in
news:p5vor31g7cvrqfp3nu4t0dmcd634c1sjtg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:23:09 -0800, Erik Max Francis
> <max@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>Wildepad wrote:
>>> You can take *any* novel and find holes in the premise. The
>>> reason you don't see them when reading is that they become
>>> part of the background.
>>
>>If they're written well enough and the premises aren't
>>completely, jarringly, break-suspension-of-disbelief ridiculous.
>> Hint, hint.
>
> *Every* plot depends on improbabilities.
Only a retard - or a troll - would pretend that all imporbabilities
are equal.
>
> If it's well written, the premise becomes virtually invisible,
> no matter how ridiculous it may seem if presented outside the
> context of the story.
>
> Can a person, no matter how strong, jump up and keep flying
> instead of falling back to Earth?
>
> Can a person, no matter how strong, get hit by a car and not be
> shoved a distance determined by the mass/speed factors of
> themselves and the auto?
>
> Can a person, no matter how strong, take off their glasses and
> cape and not be recognized by the people they work with?
>
> Completely, jarringly, break-suspension-of-disbelief ridiculous
> premise, right?
>
> Yet no one with an imagination questions them while watching the
> show. --
>
When the author is a retarded dork, however . . .
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