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<blockquote data-quote="Laurie Marr" data-source="post: 290293" data-attributes="member: 175">It certainly didn’t go the way I thought it would. People turned out to be different to who I thought they were, some stories fizzled out too soon others that I didn’t care for lasted too long. Too many other competing narratives compromised the early version of a story that I had come to venerate and perhaps even idealise……And yet all this narrative fragmentation and hallucinogenic cross currents from dreams and alternative realities is all that is left. And is all that there is or ever will&nbsp; be.And that, bizarrely,&nbsp; is how Dallas chimes with my own experience of life. There cannot be closure because there is no single story that can be closed.&nbsp; Life appears to make more sense if you think otherwise, but that doesn’t make our retrospective musings more accurate. Narrative coherence can be reassuring but is largely illusory. DALLAS and its weird obsession with ghosts and revenants has, for me, become a metaphor for the way that&nbsp; life is governed less by anchoring a sense of being (of ontology) in monological narratives than by hauntology.&nbsp; Dallas never ends…..</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Laurie Marr, post: 290293, member: 175"] It certainly didn’t go the way I thought it would. People turned out to be different to who I thought they were, some stories fizzled out too soon others that I didn’t care for lasted too long. Too many other competing narratives compromised the early version of a story that I had come to venerate and perhaps even idealise……And yet all this narrative fragmentation and hallucinogenic cross currents from dreams and alternative realities is all that is left. And is all that there is or ever will be. And that, bizarrely, is how Dallas chimes with my own experience of life. There cannot be closure because there is no single story that can be closed. Life appears to make more sense if you think otherwise, but that doesn’t make our retrospective musings more accurate. Narrative coherence can be reassuring but is largely illusory. DALLAS and its weird obsession with ghosts and revenants has, for me, become a metaphor for the way that life is governed less by anchoring a sense of being (of ontology) in monological narratives than by hauntology. Dallas never ends….. [/QUOTE]

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