Comments on: I Got This Fire In My Heart, Won’t Let Me Sleep, Can’t Concentrate…

By: Pemulis' Yachting Cap

Pemulis' Yachting Cap — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:13:37 +0000

Nucks is a shortened form of Canucks which is a slang (derogatory? I’m not sure) form of describing Canadians.

By: Anne

Anne — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:30:45 +0000

Count me in the “disappointed” camp for the ending. I at least wanted to find out what caused Hal’s problems in the beginning (I’m assuming it’s that super-dope stuff that they found and they’re going to do in the next weekend or so, but would be nice to know for sure)

On the other hand, I auppose he’s saying “life doesn’t wrap up neatly” … but some kind of end to some kind of thread would have been nice for those of us that make it all the way through.

So I’m a #3 still, even though have been done with the book for weeks.

By: BrendaH

BrendaH — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:14:15 +0000

Oh, man. Thanks for the link, Kevin, I needed that!

By: redsock

redsock — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:08:05 +0000

the last line is, i believe, gately hitting rock bottom. he will soon Come In.

By: Matt Mc

Matt Mc — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:50:32 +0000

Yeah I think Lenz and Poor Tony and probably poor Kate G. probably all get their maps eliminated for keeps (I’ve been looking for a chance to use that expression) at the hands of the Entertainment / A.F.R.

And I also think that John “N.R.” Wayne dies too. Or at least Hal’s mention of him in the Year of Glad seems to suggest that has died, although there is nothing to give us a clue about when or how.

By: amanda.a.o

amanda.a.o — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:03:14 +0000

I believe Lenz met his end in the Antoili bookshop. There was that passage (don’t have my book in front of me) about a wigged man (Lenz) who cut off another Subject’s fingers (a man dressed like a woman, Poor Tony), and tried to pass them off as his own, in order to see the Entertainment again.

By: itzadrag

itzadrag — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:05:16 +0000

i can ID. started with library, had to get a copy… but still didn’t mark a page. could kick myself. maybe next time.

please don’t kick yourself. you could end up in the hospital with many of our protagonists.

By: itzadrag

itzadrag — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:00:51 +0000

re: sons, possibility.

One of the 3 sons is not JOI’s bio-kid, or not recognized b/c of his physical attributes. Other times in the work, we are led to overlook or discount persons with “physical difference” as being agents of plot, eg, persons of color at Ennet House as being potential ETA employees (agents in hire of Canadians).

btw, can anyone out there tell me where the term “Nucks” comes from?

By: josh71

josh71 — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:04:58 +0000

Great!

By: Randy

Randy — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:45:05 +0000

When Twin Peaks ended, I read that Lynch more or less threw the last few episodes together: the network lost interest in the series (ratings were really low) and he was more or less forced to wrap it up. I don’t think the final few episodes are exactly what he would have done had he been given the artistic freedom to run with it for a while. I can’t remember DFW’s take on that–I read that essay when it came out.

The Lost Highway also has a very looped ending: the opening scene where Bill Pullman’s character get’s a call from himself (revealed later) is also the final scene, but it can’t be. A loop that is perfectly flawed. It does your head in trying to figure out how it fits, yet it can’t fit. And then there are the two different women who are the same woman and Getty’s character who is Pullman’s . . .

I always wondered what Lynch thought of Wallace too; anyone have any sources out there?