SOURCE: "Twin Peaks and the Circular Ruins of Fiction: Figuring (Out) the Acts of Reading," in Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 4, 1993, pp. 240-47.

In the following essay, Carrión compares viewing the television series Twin Peaks with the act of reading a complex fictional narrative such as those written by Jorge Luis Borges.)

In a dream, God declared to him the secret purpose of his life and work: Dante, in wonderment, knew at last who and what he was and blessed the bitterness of his life. Tradition relates that, upon waking, he felt that he had received and lost an infinite thing, something he would not be able to recuperate or even glimpse, for the machinery of the world is much too complex for the simplicity of men.

Jorge Luis Borges. "Inferno" 1, 32

The basic narrative structure of Twin Peaks had started to get as complicated as the question...