Finding an object in the grass, something like a lost camera full of someone’s decade worth of photographs, and using the magic of social media to reunite them with that lost object sparked a thought in my mind about a particular kind of trope that is tied back to lots of fiction and plays a curious sort of role in magical realism fiction in particular.
I spent my day thinking about lost things and, being a guy who is primed to think about fiction and story and magic and surrealism, it turns out that I wracked my brain around the idea of the found magical object in realist fiction. In fact I literally sat down and tried to think of an example that was trying to get my point across, the point that was steeping there just at the tip of mind and that I couldn’t quite yet articulate.
That point being something of an explanation of this trope. The trope of those magical realist type fiction stories that uses the narrative tool of an average, ordinary, everyday person finding an extraordinary object out in the world.
I also thought it was high time to finally spend my $10 and buy a digital copy of The Lost Room and rewatch it.
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