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Found Drama's inception (Fathers and Sons)

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Mario and Ms. Joelle van Dyne are probably the only people who know that Found Drama and anticonfluentialism both came out of this night with Lyle.

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The raw here is a single paragraph, but its father-son charge is precise: Himself comes out of the sauna "sloppy-blotto and depressed" because even the avant-garde journals have named plot as his Achilles' heel, and out of that one night's despair his whole late aesthetic — Found Drama, anticonfluentialism — is born. And the only two people who hold that origin-story are Mario and Joelle, i.e. the son and the son's inherited girlfriend, the same pair 068 showed the father reaching for through film. The father's creative wound gets witnessed and kept not by the tennis-playing sons but by Mario, the archivist child — the boy is the keeper of how the father's art actually got made.

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