Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 13:58:06 01/20/05
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Dear subdit: Perhaps human likesness has to do less with beauty -a too much variable concept- than with error. Errors make human behaviour what it is. And then the capacity to fix them. Or resilience to go on waiting the other guy to commit a mistake. And capacity to make profit of the mistake...or do it wrongly. That's why we, when writting or shooting movies where we want to describe a robot or a non human device, perhaps an alien kind of entity, we almost ever make use of kind of purely lgica, cold, error-proof behaviour. Mistakes, light or deep, serious or not, give human behaviour the flavor it has and even, sometimes, his dignity. Look at the greek tragedy. It almost comes from a fundamental mistake done long before the play begins and in fact the script is about how the tragic character endure the consequences. I remember that fine, smart chess player, Tartakower, saying that chess exist by his mistakes. Just my grain of powder Ferdinand, King of Royal mistakes
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