the fundamental fiction of cinema occurs in the nervous system.

don't you mean 'illusion'?  a fiction is an artifice.

no, i mean fiction.' illusion' is more accurate but 'fiction' does the polemical work i intend. if we treat the ground of the illusion as a principal in the narrative, then the narrative can be about degrees of being.

then everything that happens as a result of the illusion can be modulated, articulated, and the film can be directly about illusion.

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