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A Farewell to David Lynch 1: At the Traffic Stop

   Image Source:  Lost Highway  via  Medium . When David Lynch died on 16 January 2025, I stated that I would later comment on his artistic influence on my work . I'll break my thoughts down in a series of posts, not least with reference to my Patreon series on the occult symbolism of traffic lights . Above all, Lynch introduced me to two things that all writers should know when trying to portray our layered reality:   A juxtaposition of dream states, illusions, lies, truth, reality, extratemporal and extradimensional interlopers all in one linear narrative, which is a form of surrealism. Ironically, Lynch also introduced non-linear narratives at the same time to mass audiences, most notably in  Lost Highway ,  Mulholland Drive  and  Inland Empire . My understanding of the first idea - a linear narrative which juxtaposes insanity with sanity, private thoughts, nightmares, illusions, and imaginings with public identity - crystalized ...
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A Note to My Subscribers: Google Plus is Shutting Down


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Launched in 2011, Google+, is shutting down on 2 April 2019. If you follow this blog on my Google+ pages here and here, please subscribe now to my Blogger subscription list here. You can also receive e-mail updates on each new post by entering your e-mail in the 'subscribe' box in the left drop-down side margin of this blog.

Please also join my mailing list in the footer of my main Website, here. Scroll to the very bottom of the page.

The mailing list is not yet activated so I won't be annoying you with e-mails, but if Google censors Blogger more than it is already doing, I will transfer my blogs to another platform. The mailing list will be the only way I can reach subscribers to provide new Website addresses. I will also use the mailing list to notify subscribers about upcoming projects and publications.

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Google+ will be deleted because the platform exposed the data of 500,000 users between 2015 and March 2018. Google discovered the vulnerability but did not disclose it because its executives feared regulatory scrutiny about their data collection methods. They finally acknowledged the problem publicly on 8 October 2018. See Google's FAQ here, a report here, and discussion here.


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