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Not to sound like Alvin Straight sitting on the porch saying, “Walk away from my lawn,” but before that book, there was no information about “Twin Peaks.” So when Lynch spoke in Lynch on Lynch about the scene where Annie shows up next to Laura in bed and tells her what to write in her diary, that was great news and I have never forgotten it. It’s funny that this concept stuck with Lynch all these years, and that’s really where “The Return” came from.

The second quote that stood out to me arises when Rodley compares Henry, Jack Nance’s character in “Eraserhead,” to Josef K in Kafka’s “The Trial.” Lynch replies, “Henry is very sure something is going on, but he does not understand it at all. He sees things very, very carefully because he is trying to figure them out. He may be studying the corner of that pie container just because it is in his field of vision and he may be wondering why he sat where he did, to have it like that. Everything is new. It may not be scary for him, but it can be a key to something. Everything must “There could be traces in it.” To me, it’s a spot-on description of Dougie Jones, which at one point mirrors the iconic image of Henry in the elevator.

There’s a ton of Lynch in “The Return.” It’s a kind of exclamation point of his career. I’m making some jokes in the book about season three, because if you love something, then I’ll tease it. I’m a Gen Xer, and that’s how we were raised. Biting every hand that nourishes me is my nature. We are working on a David Lynch Encyclopedia that will be published in a few years and I am writing about “The Straight Story” for that book. I would actually compare Dougie to Alvin Straight, because no matter where Alvin goes, he creates kindness out of the person he interacts with. You always think that something bad will happen. You think the girl who comes up and wants to have dinner with Alvin by the fire is going to steal his stuff, but what happens between them instead is kindness, and the same thing happens with Dougie. All Dougie gets in touch with, he actually makes them friendly. I’ve never really considered Dougie and Henry beyond the picture of him in the elevator, which is certainly the same, but I think you’re right in the quote from Lynch that also connects them.

As Lynch said at a book signing for To catch the big fish before the Chicago premiere of “Inland Empire” in 2007, “My Movies Are Like Cert’s Spirit Coins – Two in One!”

[laughs] It is true! At the Q&A in Chicago, I thought it was very interesting that Duwayne Dunham said, “Lynch will never tell you to cut here. He will give you a direction like, ‘Make it more yellow.’” There’s that feeling in all his films, and that’s why we go back to them, we do not want answers.

In what other ways do you view Lynch’s work as therapeutic? I think this quote from Lynch highlighted by John Thorne in his excellent essay, “Time & Time Again”, contained in the March 2018 issue sums it up beautifully: “Our journey through life is to gain divine mind through knowledge and experience of combined “To unite the two opposing things is the trick. To appreciate one, you must know the other – the more darkness you can pick up, the more light you can see.”