Chapter 9

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↓ TranscriptChapter 9 —- (An image of Dee’s hand holding a television remote.) Alt text: (none)

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↓ Transcript(Emily and Dee sitting on the couch in her house.) Emily: I’ve been thinking… How exactly do I know that you’re real? Dee: Um… The fact that I am? Emily: No, but it’s difficult to prove. If you were[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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↓ TranscriptEmily: You know what this reminds me of? Calvin and Hobbes. Dee: Umm… Hobees the philosopher? I read a little about his political ideas, but I don’t know what he thought about reality. And do you mean Calvin… the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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↓ TranscriptEmily: See, look! Hobbes is moving stuff. But he’s not a real tiger! Dee: Obviously, Calvin is moving it and imagining that Hobbes is. Emily: Precisely my point! Dee: I’m sure he realizes that he’s doing it! It’s not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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↓ Transcript(They walk out the front door of the house and towards the garage, where there is a parked car.) Dee: Try to move that car. Emily: As if I ever could. (She gives it a perfunctory push.) Dee: OK.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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↓ TranscriptEmily: Alright, alright. But you know what, why should my delusion stop with you? Maybe the whole world is a figment of my imagination. How could you tell? Dee: That’s just stupid! I’m going to stop arguing with you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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↓ Transcript(They are walking slowly back into the house.) Emily: But what if it’s a dream and you can wake up? Dee: Then you’ll wake up eventually, so stop complaining. Enjoy the dream. Emily: Not if it’s like the Matrix.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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↓ Transcript(They are back in the living room.) Dee: Anyway, here’s something that didn’t really come up in those movies: presumably the world in the Matrix is the same as our real world, right? Including impoverished people, and starvation, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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↓ TranscriptDee: You could do that even if life is real. Everybody dies. It doesn’t matter in the end. Emily: But if it’s real, you’re affecting other people. They go on after you die. If it’s fake, there are no[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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↓ TranscriptEmily: Or characters in a book! Writers make all sorts of horrible things happen to their characters. Is that now sadistic? And video games! Oh, god, video games! Dee: OK, those don’t count. There’s definitely a line somewhere. Emily:[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…