"A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again"

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"Greatly Exaggerated"
I skimmed through this. But the title is quite cute.

__ Its first half is a critical overview of some of the major positions on authorial vital signs. Not only is there Hobbes and Frye on what an author is, there's Foucault v. Nehamas on just how to recognize what an author is, and Barthes v. William Gass on whether to even bother trying to find an author.

"David Lynch Keeps His Head"
This is where footnotes start to creep in.

• * friends to whom I've promulgated the rule but who have willfully ignored it and have continued dating females with clear elements of Lynchianism in their characters or associations have done so to their regret.
• A better way to put what i just tried to say Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear.
  
• Lynch's movies are inarguably creepy, and a big part of their creepiness is that they seem so personal. 
• His passionate inwardness is refreshingly childlike, but I notice that very few of us choose to make small children our friends. ...I've noticed that, while I can't help but respect and sort of envy the moral nerve of people who truly do not care what others think of them, people like this also make me nervous,
  
• Lynch's movies are not about monsters (i.e. people whose intrinsic natures are evil) but about hauntings, about evil as environment, possibility, force... In his movies' world, a kind of ambient spiritual antimatter hangs just overhead. It also explains why Lynch's villains seem not merely wicked or sick but ecstatic, transported: they are, literally, possessed.
  

Weltschmerz: Sadness over the evils of the world, especially as an expression of romantic pessimism.
teratoid: malformed
ectomorph: a person with a thin non-muscular body
strabismus: abnormal alignment of one or both eyes
Thanatos: Death as a personification or as a philosophical notion.
mavourneen: Irish My darling.
sapropel: A mud rich in organic matter formed at the bottom of a body of water.
murine: of, relating to, or produced by the house mouse
melisma: A passage of several notes sung to one syllable of text, as in Gregorian chant.
occlude: Dentistry To bring together (the upper and lower teeth) in proper alignment for chewing.

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