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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 ...

Interlude on Censorship: Another Home and Other Refuges


Erik Satie - Gnossiennes 1-6 (6 October 2016). Video Source: Youtube.

Yesterday and overnight, a number of alternative channels were blocked or demonetized on Youtube. Youtube is owned by Google, which also hosts Blogger, the platform for this blog and my other blog, Histories of Things to Come. I will have to migrate content to back it up on another platform and welcome suggestions from readers. I will elaborate on this problem in another post, later today.

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