{"id":111075,"date":"2017-05-22T09:32:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T13:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=111075"},"modified":"2017-05-22T10:32:26","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T14:32:26","slug":"laura-palmer-is-so-metatextual-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/22\/laura-palmer-is-so-metatextual-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Palmer Is So Metatextual, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_111076\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/laurapalmer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111076\" class=\"wp-image-111076\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/laurapalmer.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/laurapalmer.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/laurapalmer-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/laurapalmer-768x494.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/laurapalmer-1024x658.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-111076\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From the cover of <i>The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer<\/i>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Well, <em>Twin Peaks <\/em>is back, and that means it\u2019s time for you to have An Opinion\u2122 about it. Are you ready? I\u2019m not. I don\u2019t have Showtime and I haven\u2019t watched the original series in years\u2014it\u2019s all I can do to skate by with a few knowing jokes about the Log Lady. To buy myself some time, I\u2019m trying to develop An Opinion\u2122 about <em>The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer<\/em>, a strange 1990 tie-in novel written by David Lynch\u2019s daughter, Jennifer. As Lara Williams writes, the book foregrounded the show\u2019s dark depiction of child abuse, which would be fine if it weren\u2019t marketed toward teen girls: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2017\/may\/19\/the-secret-diary-of-laura-palmer-twin-peaks-problematic-tie-in\">The novel is surprisingly profound. It is unflinching in how it depicts a teenager\u2019s powerlessness in the face of adult male sexuality, and how abuse shapes her burgeoning sexuality<\/a>. It also contains a complex depiction of how the abuse shapes Laura\u2019s life: her burgeoning addiction to cocaine, which she funds with sex work, the self-loathing she feels as she imagines she invited the attacks \u2026 For [professor Kirsty] Fairclough, one of the most unsettling things about the book is how it was marketed to and read primarily by teenage girls. \u2018I was a kid when I read this,\u2019 she says. \u2018It was a status symbol, a sort of rebellion. I totally connected with Laura Palmer\u2019 \u2026 Published before the second season had aired, the book came out just as Palmer\u2019s diary was also being written into the narrative of the show\u2014pre-empting the metatextual conceits of post-internet shows, such as <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> and <em>Lost<\/em>.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Cynthia Zarin considers Enda Walsh, an Irish playwright whose work is a study in fragility: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/culture-desk\/words-make-a-room-the-plays-of-enda-walsh?intcid=mod-latest\">In almost all of Walsh\u2019s dreamlike, darkly hilarious plays, the central character has been sent to his\u2014or her\u2014room<\/a>. His work explores the liminal space between interior and exterior worlds by stringing up a cat\u2019s cradle of language in which his characters swing between memories, dreams, and reflections\u2014an act in which the audience colludes. It\u2019s unclear exactly how this happens. Some of this may be due to Walsh\u2019s exceptional ability to forge immediate connections, on and off the stage \u2026 Walsh says, \u2018In my plays, each character reaches a point where something happened that led them to where they\u2019ve ended up. As a child, I was obsessed with running away! I would get about four doors down and then be sent back by the neighbor.\u2019\u2009\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the academic journal <em>Hypatia<\/em>, Rebecca Tuvel published a paper defending the viability of transracial identity on the same grounds as transgender identity, thus deepening an already vast chasm between various factions of university philosophers. Jennifer Schuessler writes, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/19\/arts\/a-defense-of-transracial-identity-roils-philosophy-world.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts&amp;_r=0\">Tuvel\u2019s paper is squarely in the tradition of analytic philosophy, an approach that focuses on clarifying concepts and that relies on blunt logical analysis and sometimes outlandish-seeming hypotheticals and analogies<\/a>. (Do justifications for eating meat also support cannibalism? Are unwanted fetuses\u00a0akin to rapists?) But it\u2019s an approach, some of her detractors say, that is unsuited to the subject at hand \u2026 The president of <em>Hypatia<\/em>\u2019s board of directors, Miriam Solomon, a professor of philosophy at Temple University, said the critics of the paper had \u2018legitimate concerns\u2019 about the marginalization of transgender and nonwhite voices in philosophy. But she reiterated that philosophical pluralism was an important value, too. Ms. Tuvel\u2019s paper is \u2018a very competent example of a certain style of philosophy,\u2019 she said. \u2018I think <em>Hypatia<\/em> should publish such things as well as other things.\u2019\u2009\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Michael Wood takes another look at that staple of art cinema, Antonioni\u2019s <em>Blow-Up<\/em>, now out in a new digital transfer from the Criterion Collection: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v39\/n10\/michael-wood\/at-the-movies\">Nothing ages as fast as style, and film is a merciless medium<\/a>. But certain frozen styles have their appeal, and David Hemmings, as Thomas, owner of the Rolls and famous photographer who was in the flophouse collecting images for a book, is as impressively sulky and obtuse as he always was. I don\u2019t think I had noticed previously how distracted he is throughout the film, how perfectly he fits the role of the man who can\u2019t concentrate on the mystery he thinks he has discovered. There are several remarkable shots where he becomes the sole subject of the movie camera: standing between two prints in his studio, facing us, while the prints show us only their backs; alone in a park, stranded by a high-angle long shot in what feels like a world composed entirely of grass. Antonioni\u2019s camera becomes a model of looking, suggesting that Thomas\u2019s proud claim to be a photographer\u2014this is his excuse for bullying women and invading privacy\u2014involves a different kind of expertise, not looking but collecting. \u2018I\u2019ve got to get a shot of it,\u2019 he says of a corpse he has seen, and the phrase might be his motto.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Why do we travel? Why leave home? What\u2019s the point of all that inconvenience? Bernd Brunner wonders if we might just be better off staying put: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/thesmartset.com\/between-everywhere-and-nowhere\/\">It is not usually the glorious monuments \u2026 that we remember, but for the most part oddities, involuntary detours, misunderstandings, smells (and stenches), tastes, sounds, and colors<\/a>; the more-or-less welcome surprises and, yes, the encounters. I was lucky to have caught a glimpse of Arthur C. Clarke on the southern tip of Sri Lanka as he was followed by a frenzied group of Japanese fans. I arrived in Tangiers too late to meet Paul Bowles, but I happened to shake hands with Pierre Berg\u00e9, Yves Saint Laurent\u2019s partner (and a reason for the local guide to ask me for an extra tip). From other trips undertaken a couple of decades ago, I remember barely more than a few images: a night spent half-awake in a shabby hotel in the harbor district of Marseille. A gun pointed at me at night somewhere in Wyoming, not being aware of the risk you take when sleeping outside on a hot night. A monkey defecating while I was passing underneath a tree in India. Am I \u2018well-traveled\u2019? I don\u2019t think so, but what does this mean anyway in today\u2019s world?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s roundup: the book that tied into Twin Peaks; a controversy roils academic philosophers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[28908,28907,8246,7682,8079,28909,28906,28905,81,7403,13911,123,6688],"class_list":["post-111075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-antonioni","tag-blow-up","tag-controversy","tag-diaries","tag-enda-walsh","tag-hypatia","tag-jennifer-lynch","tag-laura-palmer","tag-movies","tag-philosophy","tag-playwrights","tag-travel","tag-twin-peaks"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Laura Palmer Is So Metatextual<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In today\u2019s arts and culture roundup: the book that tied into Twin Peaks; 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