The Eschaton debacle — "It’s only real-world snow if it’s…"
‘It’s only real-world snow if it’s already in the scenario!’ Pemulis keeps directing everything at Penn, who hasn’t said a word since his original suggestion and is busy sort of casually kicking the Karachi-shirt over into the Arabian Sea, clearly hoping the original detonation will get forgotten about in all the metatheoretical fuss.
Context
Iterations two and three of the doctrine, as the snow thickens: stripped of the first version's "you dick," it's the thesis at its barest — the same physical snowflakes are real or unreal depending on which level of the representation they land on, and reality gets into the game only by being written into the scenario first. Meanwhile Penn quietly commits the scene's other map-crime, doctoring the territory's evidence by toe: kicking vaporized Karachi into the Arabian Sea while everyone argues theory.