truth is stranger than non-fiction
I decided to post this week, instead of next, as things may get hectic with my court trial appearance thingie.
So ponder this!
For a fact, I consider Star Wars to be a non-fiction, like a documentary. Not a family adventure or science fiction movie. Until it is proven without a doubt that there really was no Luke Skywalker and Jar Jar and Yoda and whatnot in existence between now and the big bang... It's non-fiction, and you can never definitively prove to me otherwise.
If you can, however, that would be cool. Saying "Lucas just made it up" won't work, either. I could tell you a story about John Smith that got married in California last decade. Without me knowing if this is true, statistically speaking, I'm confident it could be proven with a little research. With the proper tools and documents. Long ago, far away, strange names and happenings... My story has it all.
Ponder with me 14 billion years from now, in a galaxy far, far away... I wonder if there will be a story of a "human" named "Marco" that wrote something on "his cyberweb's LiveJournal." Sure, it will probably be sucessful and many sequels will be made covering other parts of my life. But will that strange alien race actually lean back in their hoverchairs and wonder if I really did once do this? It's so fantastic and alien. "Impossiblely the most fictious thing I've ever heard of" some might say...
So ponder this!
For a fact, I consider Star Wars to be a non-fiction, like a documentary. Not a family adventure or science fiction movie. Until it is proven without a doubt that there really was no Luke Skywalker and Jar Jar and Yoda and whatnot in existence between now and the big bang... It's non-fiction, and you can never definitively prove to me otherwise.
If you can, however, that would be cool. Saying "Lucas just made it up" won't work, either. I could tell you a story about John Smith that got married in California last decade. Without me knowing if this is true, statistically speaking, I'm confident it could be proven with a little research. With the proper tools and documents. Long ago, far away, strange names and happenings... My story has it all.
Ponder with me 14 billion years from now, in a galaxy far, far away... I wonder if there will be a story of a "human" named "Marco" that wrote something on "his cyberweb's LiveJournal." Sure, it will probably be sucessful and many sequels will be made covering other parts of my life. But will that strange alien race actually lean back in their hoverchairs and wonder if I really did once do this? It's so fantastic and alien. "Impossiblely the most fictious thing I've ever heard of" some might say...