And so is writing for that matter. Whether your prose refers to the new Lexus or a beat-up Pinto ready to kill everyone inside upon rear-end collision, it doesn't cost any more to print it out. The equanimity of the word is paramount to the even keel of JP's judicial soul.
Unfortunately, building shit is not cheap. One person who's learning the difference the hard way is J.K. Rowling. She met with Disney about opening a Harry Potter theme park. Her ideas, while imaginative, don't fare so well when they don't all cost the same:
Rowling's vision supposedly was that each person would enter through the Leaky Cauldron, tap on a brick, gain access to Diagon Alley, then proceed to a platform in a version of King's Cross station and take a train to Hogwarts. Disney figured it would have had to build multiple Leaky Cauldron entrances to cycle in small groups every two minutes. Admission to the attraction envisioned by Rowling would have run north of $800 per person. Disney's thought it might be able to drive the cost down a bit to make it comparable to Anheuser-Busch's Discovery Cove, where folks pay a few hundred bucks to swim with dolphins. But in the end, Disney and Rowling could not come to terms.
Yeah, I don't think the $800/pop theme park is going to get very far.
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