AtD: Bilocations in popular culture

[Daniel Julius]

Bilocations seem to abound in David Lynch.  See esp. Inland Empire

But I suspect we're talking less neo-Surrealism, and more Stargate...

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Dan


On Nov 13, 2007 8:07 AM, Clément Lévy <clemlevy at gmail.com> wrote:
> I remember a scene in a not so recent movie where people found the
> wreck of an airplane in the middle of a desert (Mongolia?): this
> plane had been lost in the middle of the see (Atlantic?) for years
> and years...
> The problem is, I don't remember anything else about this film
> (science fiction, maybe). I guess there are plenty of this sort of
> cases in TV series like X-Files usw. Is this what you meant, Kai?
> Does this remind something to anybody here?
> Clément
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> Le 13 nov. 07 à 13:47, Kai Frederik Lorentzen a écrit :
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> > Earlier this year I was zapping through the channels and came to
> > stay with an American TV-movie
> > on the Bermuda triangle for about half an hour. It had some good
> > animations with huge waves
> > swallowing ships and all. Then there was this one scene where the
> > physicist explained to the
> > perplexed special-unit-agents (plus a member of the government)
> > that the vanished airplanes and
> > ships have an identical counterpart on the opposite side of the
> > earth and that they might can be
> > brought back by finding these counterparts ... Of course I had to
> > think of AtD. My question: Are
> > there other representations of the idea of bilocations in popular
> > culture? Is it perhaps by now even
> > a mainstream idea in Science Fiction? An early example that could
> > have influenced Pynchon is R.A.
> > Wilson's "The Universe Next Door" [1979]. Anyone for more?
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> > Kai
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