...But in the end, I think its perhaps best for Stu, Larry, Glen, Frannie, Ralph, Tom Cullen, Lloyd, and that dark fellow to belong to the reader, who will visualize them through the lens of imagination in a vivid and constantly changing way no camera can duplicate. Movies, after all, are only an illusion of motion comprised of thousands of still photographs. The imagination, however, moves with its own tidal flow. Films, even the best of them, freeze fiction -- anyone who has ever seen One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest and then reads Ken Keseys novel will f it hard or impossible not to see Jack Nicholsons face on Randle Patrick McMurphy. That is not necessarily bad...but it IS limiting. The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way. --- Stephen King, The Stand Preface Part 2. October 24, 1989. Thoughts? Comments? Interpretations?
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