T-Rex: You read a story and it's like, "Hey! Here's a bunch of fake stuff that didn't happen!"
T-Rex: "Spend some of your finite life pretending that it did!"
T-Rex: And we do it! We do it ALL THE TIME. We imagine stuff and we watch television and we pay to see movies and basically, we're all running around spending a non-trivial chunk of our lives - of EACH AND EVERY DAY - imagining things and events and situations that don't exist.
T-Rex: And then we fall asleep and do it all over again in dreamland!!
Utahraptor: Are you going to argue that imagining alternate realities gives us motivation to improve this one?
T-Rex: Whoah!
T-Rex: No man, I was gonna argue we need to knuckle down and read more non-fiction, and also, dream more non-fiction. But your argument turns daydreaming into, like - a social good! I'm kinda the Gandhi of imagination over here!
Utahraptor: I wouldn't go that far.
T-Rex: I would, AND did!!
T-Rex: Now I'm dreaming about what if we had a boat, and then we all lived on that boat! Join me, won't you? Though I must caution you:
T-Rex: On our boat, the sails and sailors alike are... taut.
