More interesting -- and more expensive -- would be a version that allowed even more complex editing (such as substituting characters).
That said, Xerox's support staff were seemingly unaware of this as a documented issue.So why include a mode that could distort or substitute characters in the first place?
But this sort of thing, however well done, risks descending into a torrent of timely references, the sort of rage for information that James Wood has criticized as substituting for character in some contemporary fiction.
Explosions substituting for character development.
Hammer were keen to make an immediate follow-up, and wanted to use Quatermass in their 1956 film X the Unknown; however, Kneale refused them the rights, and they created their own substitute character, Doctor Adam Royston.
Character 5 of Stein and Selden, substituted for character 30 of Ortega Hernández et al. Coded as unknown for Yohoia[ 23].
Binder has provided us with a watchable, but uneven soap opera that pulls punches and substitutes characters who are just misunderstood for real people who live and die under the siege of a much more brutal reality.
He said, "Eventually, I realized that if I wrote the substitute characters well enough, so that they seemed familiar in certain ways, certain aspects of them brought back a kind of generic super-hero resonance or familiarity to the reader, then it might work".
Vida deftly handles this meta-fictional game, relishing the ironies prised open by a (fictional) character substituting for a (fictional) actress playing a (fictional) film role in a novel.
It's entertaining to watch Adjmi equate intellectualism with sexiness, but occasionally he slips too far into the dry groves of academe, substituting theory for character.
