Photography vs. movies: Misc TRP discussion during break?

[Mark Kohut]

Recently we plisters had a very interesting--to me at least---
discussion about some of the possible attitudes of TRP to
photography and movies in his fiction......

I held out for a steadfy dissing satire of photography......many others, 
such as John C., thought that that did not explain TRP's obvious love of 
movie-going, obvious love of many movies visible in the text, etc. 

Which seems as true as rain. 

So, I could not help turning over the works
in my mind---rereading all of them since then [UNFUNNY JOKE]---in what passes for thinking in my life.....

And this possibility occurred to me. Does TRP make a lifelong distinction between photographing what we take as the world [while reading] his fiction versus all the photgraphs that make up a movie in his fictions? Movies which are entertainment, some are even art, let's say, that is, that he presents filmed artifacts as fictions, metaphysically, while shots of "reality" or life---and 24fps's deathly failure---are part of a vision which steadily disses "capturing" "shooting" life while it should be lived.