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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 3516099" data-attributes="member: 22779">You aren't honestly going to try to tell me that you can definitively point to the exact place where art becomes pornography.&nbsp; I know that's not what you mean to say when no one else in the entire world has been able to do so.&nbsp; I know that I'm misreading the above quote somehow and you're not honestly trying to say that you can.Ok, maybe you're just not understanding my point.If I take a blank canvas and put a splash of blue on it, is it a painting?&nbsp; How about two splashes?&nbsp; Is it when all the paint has been applied and the finished product is dry?&nbsp; Perhaps the second last dab in the upper left corner?&nbsp; No?&nbsp; Then, I can pretty much say that there is no point at which a blank canvas becomes a painting.&nbsp; I can point to a blank canvas and say, &quot;That's NOT a painting&quot; and I can point to the Mona Lisa and say that it is.&nbsp; However, there's a whole process in the middle where it's neither one nor the other completely.Thus, the definition of the word spectrum.It would be a very, very large stretch to say that Waiting for Godot has world building.&nbsp; It would also be a pretty large stretch to say that a Star Trek Tech Manual isn't pure world building divorced entirely from anything else.&nbsp; Yet, between those two extremes, we have a whole host of other works.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 3516099, member: 22779"] You aren't honestly going to try to tell me that you can definitively point to the exact place where art becomes pornography. I know that's not what you mean to say when no one else in the entire world has been able to do so. I know that I'm misreading the above quote somehow and you're not honestly trying to say that you can. Ok, maybe you're just not understanding my point. If I take a blank canvas and put a splash of blue on it, is it a painting? How about two splashes? Is it when all the paint has been applied and the finished product is dry? Perhaps the second last dab in the upper left corner? No? Then, I can pretty much say that there is no point at which a blank canvas becomes a painting. I can point to a blank canvas and say, "That's NOT a painting" and I can point to the Mona Lisa and say that it is. However, there's a whole process in the middle where it's neither one nor the other completely. Thus, the definition of the word spectrum. It would be a very, very large stretch to say that Waiting for Godot has world building. It would also be a pretty large stretch to say that a Star Trek Tech Manual isn't pure world building divorced entirely from anything else. Yet, between those two extremes, we have a whole host of other works. [/QUOTE]

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