(July 6, 2011 at 11:38 am)Epimethean Wrote: What's your evidence to the contrary? The absence of expressed A/V aspects necessarily demands more of the imaginative process. Or are you going to say that a movie version of a story is equally as challenging to the imagination as the book upon which it is based?
No version of a story is challenging. It does not affect the imagination whether it is given words to prompt the senses/memory or pictures or videos or sound. The imagination can do it with none of these, and it can do it with all of these. I play symphonies in my head when music I don't like comes on the radio, and I do it as easily when I turn the radio off. It's a mistake to confuse challenge with anything more than lack of skill on part of the challenged. Find your own fun with what you are given
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
