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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 8
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    Ever notice how closed worlds in fiction tend to also be moving worlds? Spaceships, ships (treasure), train (snowpiercer)... the things you can do onboard are limited and away missions are very controlled but it’s still varied because you’re moving.

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      2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 8
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        Deep Space 9 feels like an exception till you note that they put a heavily trafficked wormhole next to the space station so the world is moving past them even if they’re not. We’re in a non-moving closed world. That’s why it sucks.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 8
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        Haven’t talked with another human besides my wife in person for months, not counting transactional interactions with concierge, checkout people etc. Single extroverts must be going insane. I bet many went protesting partly for social reasons.

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      4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 8
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        Now if our building were a spaceship that landed in a different city every week and the away missions were new every week that would be fun.

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      2. Bronwyn Williams‏ @bronwynwilliams Jun 8
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        That’s a great metaphor for closed social tribes here on the terrestrial side plain too

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      3. aMemerDankly‏ @shubhorup Jun 8
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        ...they keep moving?

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      2. visa is working on his ebook‏ @visakanv Jun 8
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        Feels related to how film often uses background movement to keep things visually interesting - lights, backup dancers, wind, rain, traffic, anything to keep the viewer’s attention from getting bored and noticing the weak points/seams

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      3. visa is working on his ebook‏ @visakanv Jun 8
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        Kurosawa was the master of this, or so I’ve been toldpic.twitter.com/Bq2Com4GH4

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      1. James Cole‏ @jamesrcole Jun 8
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        Makes sense. WOOL is the one case I can think of where it’s a closed world and stationary.

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        I’m actually writing about this for the "Night Train" edition of Journal des Rêves, the magazine curated by @saviniencara

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        Ships/boats afford bound-by-horizon platform conductive to smuggling a cosmology in (dinning scene, Moby Dick) with ‘found’ worlds as intrusions. Trains are more of a moving skin, a poetic sort of deal.

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