Contents
1 Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley...............................3
2 E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction...................21
3 Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All...83
4 Greatly Exaggerated...........................................138
5 David Lynch Keeps His Head....................................146
7 A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again....................256
Chapter One
derivative sport in tornado alley
When I left my boxed township of Illinois farmland to attend my dad's alma
mater in the lurid jutting Berkshires of western Massachusetts, I all of a
sudden developed a jones for mathematics. I'm starting to see why this was
so. College math evokes and catharts a Midwesterner's sickness for home.
I'd grown up inside vectors, lines and lines athwart lines, grids--and, on
the scale of horizons, broad curving lines of geographic force, the weird
topographical drain-swirl of a whole lot of ice-ironed land that sits and
spins atop plates. The area behind and below these broad curves at the
sea ... read full excerpt from A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments ebook
