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Oh f-list, you're my only hope!

I'm working on a paper for my China and Its Neighbors class about representations of Tibet in Western and Chinese culture (how Orientalist attitudes are or aren't reflected in both, how a region's struggle for independence becomes commercialized, etc). Since I like doing my own analyses of stuff, my primary sources include Seven Years in Tibet, Kundun, and Dreaming Lhasa.

Now, Twin Peaks fans (I'm lookin' at you, agonistes and gao): How would you personally describe the way Lynch uses Tibet as a narrative device/character element? And if I were going to look at a specific episode or two, what would you recommend?

Thank you, folken. :D

(Doing research for this kind of shamefully makes me want to go out and buy some prayer flags. The commercial cultural system: you're part of it!)

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Oh! I forgot I never posted the results of me and KL dressing up as each
other.

( Below the cut! )

I promise you the resemblance is uncanny. >.>

shameless consumerism

WANT WANT WANT



*cough* Okay, go about your business.