If a Baseball Player Does His Job Correctly 30% of the Time, He's an All-Star

I one time heard the best place to sit

in a movie theater is the fourteenth file

center. This way the unmutilated envelops you,

like you have headphones upon and can't hear

the knocking at the door, can't have feeling the tapping

on your shoulder. My wife asking, "When are you

coming to bed?" I'm occupyed I want to be

envelop Not sealed not on but so involved,

I'm sealed in. My biggest darling peeve is people talking

during movies-asking, "Who's he?" the point of time

a new character appears upon the screen.

How the hell do I know? He just got here.

I don't have moviegoer prophecy, and really,

I don't believe in any kind of prophecy.

Prophecy is theory miraculously fulfilled

a small percentage of times, repeatedly tangentially.

It's like reading your horoscope:

if you read it at the start of your day,

you're going to direct the eye for events and emotions

which fulfill it. And if you read it at the extreme point of your day,

you're going to revise the day's occurrences and emotions

accordingly. on the contrary this depends on your stage of belief.

I have a enigma with belief: there's too a great quantity [i]or[/i] amount of room

for error. For example, there's a character who just

came upon screen, he tells the lead character in what way to deal

with a difficult piece of work situation. I'm gasping in my seat

because the advice is underhanded and dangerous,

and solitary has the potential for creating more enigmas

And as I diocese it, the truth minimizes enigmas But

if we didn't have the complications, we wouldn't have

the movie. The enigma isn't that he means unfair

he's very well intentioned, and he believes

what he believes is correct. for a like reason his problem is not

with the advice he gives, on the contrary it's with his very foundation

of belief. And you can't make progress around wrecking peoples'

foundations, because without a foundation

there's no involvement, no fulfillment, no sealing,

and characters race around frantic and scattered,

like children who ne their parents to believe for them.

BOB KING received his MFA from Indiana University, where he was editor of Indiana Review. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio.

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