But there is a script, after all, found in a pile of little books beside the door.
Rich Moore said there was a script reading of "Wreck-It Ralph" in 2010, before anyone was even cast.
"In addition, there was a script from an episode of NBC's Hill Street Blues; a 1983 Sears Roebuck catalog; two Rubik's Cubes; a Kodak Instamatic camera (no word on whether it contained any usable photos); a rotary telephone; and VHS tapes of the design conference and the time capsule burial ceremony".
There is an alternative script, of course, and it is not by any means implausible.
There is a sense of script, too, in Muriel Spark's characteristically acerbic and humorously retributive stories, which span half a century of writing that, even in her novels, relies on a glancing sensibility and an elliptical archness.
Pick-up, as O'Neill explains, fails to comprehend the actual messy reality of love and dating: "Relationships are complicated, sex is complicated, and I fundamentally do not believe there is a set of scripts, or techniques that you can use that will produce for you the desired results," she says.
Between the monumental and the cursive scripts there was a whole series of types that had some of the peculiarities of each group.
There is a kind of standard script which the disgraced are expected to play out in which remorse and humility are the necessary precursors to rehabilitation and resurrection.
"She memorizes the opening and closing lines, and there is a sort of rough script, consisting mostly of key words and phrases, but aside from that there's just no telling what's going to happen.
As well as the scripts there was a growing list of novels, along with every conceivable award for his newspaper columns and his regular contributions to Punch.
