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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.
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