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[proximoception]

But nothing on television ever had me half as interested as Lost did at its peak.

I once thought life was too short to abide failure, in myself or elsewhere. But success is so accidental, so formal an advantage that you miss almost everything there is to miss if you chase it religiously. Lost failed overall and almost everywhere, but though that's enraging it's not important.

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[nightspore.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly. I think narratives tend to have to choose between perfection of the path and perfection of the resolution. Well, fascination of the path vs. perfection of the resolution. I think I prefer fascination of the path. It's David Lynch's stock-in-trade, no? (But Shakespeare does both.)

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

I think Lynch does both! When he does either, anyway. Oh, but you said perfect resolutions, not perfect final scenes.

That's a fascinating distinction. And I think I'm with you - most of the books I love I'd be happy to see go on forever, because there's something about them that would permit it. E.g. The Magic Mountain, Moby-Dick, War and Peace - which pretty much does anyway.

But then others become what they say, like To the Lighthouse and Woman in the Dunes, and that's amazing too, and if anything rarer. Image becomes word while staying image. Whereas in the other they continually interfuse, separate.