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proximoception ([personal profile] proximoception) wrote2011-01-23 02:41 pm
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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.

[identity profile] nightspore.livejournal.com 2011-01-23 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
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.)