25th April 2006, 3:20 PM
That's not to say some people are just plain better at playing pretend than others, it's just that it is something that, from what you are describing to me, they need to realize.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)