Having a secret is mostly about thinking about the secret, alone (which makes sense, really). “The actual act of hiding — the moment a person makes up a lie, or changes the subject, or simply omits certain information from a conversation — proved to be only a minor part of the experience of having a secret. Instead, what seems to affect people much more is how often they think about the secret.”
Tag: 05.15.17
‘Twin Peaks’ Made Peak TV Possible (And Now It’s Coming Back, For Reasons We Might Not Question Too Closely)
Here’s the thing, and why the sequel won’t matter so much: “Without Twin Peaks, and its big-bang expansion of the possibilities of television, half your favorite shows wouldn’t exist. The absorptive, all-in serial, sonically and visually entire, novelistically cantilevered with deep structure and extending backwards into the viewer’s brain, was simply not a thing before Lynch and Frost. With Twin Peaks they effectively renegotiated TV’s contract with its audience.”
The Evolution Of “Black English”
“Don’t say less books, say fewer books,” and “Say Billy and I went to the store, not Billy and me went to the store.” This narrow notion of grammar has amounted to a peculiar snobbery: the more obscure and seemingly complex the grammatical rule, the more we tend to assert its importance and to esteem those who have managed to master it.