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Infinite Summer • View topic - Steeply and Twin Peaks' Dennis/Denise Bryson??

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 Post subject: Steeply and Twin Peaks' Dennis/Denise Bryson??
PostPosted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 7:03 pm 
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I'm still reading, slowly, though I haven't posted here in a while because I'm behind, so even the Daily Discussion contains spoilers for me.

So I don't know if this is old news to everyone else, but I was mentioning the cross-dressing investigator Hugh/Helen Steeply to my boyfriend who hasn't read IJ but is a David Lynch fan and he immediately mentioned David Duchovny's character on Twin Peaks. Namely, cross-dressing DEA investigator Dennis/Denise Bryson. Is this a nod from DFW to DL?

Here's a pic (now I can't help but visualize Helen Steeply looking like this):
http://starsmedia.ign.com/stars/image/a ... 91-000.jpg


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 Post subject: Re: Steeply and Twin Peaks' Dennis/Denise Bryson??
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I believe Wallace was influenced by Lynch/Twin Peaks and make several connections between IJ and images in Twin Peaks (including the one you noted) in Elegant Complexity. There's a line lifted straight from Miguel Ferrar's character: "Look, it's trying to think." In one report, Avril's hair turns white overnight like Leland's. And several more.


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definitely a good catch


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 Post subject: Re: Steeply and Twin Peaks' Dennis/Denise Bryson??
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that's rad. important to remember, though, that Denise was a transvestite of volition--not "merely" going undercover.



Ha. Oh DFW, you really WERE a Twin Peaks junkie!


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