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We'll say a little bit about Beyond the Pleasure Principle, which is the crucial text for our purposes, but plainly apart from the influence of and the ideas borrowed from Freud, you'll find Brooks writing on what for you is pretty familiar turf.

For example, he begins by borrowing the Russian formalist distinction in trying to explain what fiction is between plot and story.

I feel that I do ultimately have to cave in and admit to you that the Russian words for these plot and story are sujet and fabula, respectively, because Brooks keeps using these terms again and again.

I've explained my embarrassment about using terms that I really I have no idea of the meaning of them except that I'm told what the meaning of them is in the books that I'm reading, which are the same books that you're reading.

In any case, since Brooks does constantly use these terms, I have to overcome embarrassment and at least at times use them They're a little counterintuitive, by the way, if you try to find cognates for them in English because you'd think that sujet would be subject matter, in other words, something much closer to what the formalists mean in English by On the other hand, you'd think that fabula might well be something like plot or fiction, but it is not.

It's just the opposite.

Sujet is the plot, the way in which a story is constructed, and the story is the subject matter or material out of which the subject matter or material out of which the sujet is made.

In addition to the use of the relationship between plot and story, we also find Brooks using terms that are now, having read Jakobson and de Man, very familiar to us, the terms metaphor and metonymy.

because we have to honor Tony.

It's rather obvious that for Lacan, Tony the Tow Truck is a text in which Tony settles for the objet petit a, little bumpy the car, an imperfect being but a helpful one and a friend.

That's what I call a friend.

whereas the objects of desire are improper object choices on the face of it.

That's what an American ego psychologist would have said, but they are, in a more Bunuel-esque way of putting it, obscure objects of desire as they motor on down the road, which are simply unavailable to Tony as object relations at all.

and so Nito and Speedy are the big other, and Bumpy is the objet petit a.

All right, now it's just perfectly obvious that for Harold Bloom, Tony the Tow Truck is a strong misreading of The Little Engine That Could.

It's perfectly clear because Bumpy is the hero of The Little Engine That Could.

You could wait.

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Okay, I'll, I'll go, I'll go for it.

I have tow truck driver Kurt-

Kurt-... tow truck driver Kurt.

Yeah

Does he do it? Does he do that?

Fair.

Except for shirtless slow-mo Kurt at the end.

And, and Tow- To- Tow, I keep, [laughs] I wanna say Tow, Tow Truck, Tow Truck driver.

Because of where it was at, they got in the vehicle and were able to force the vehicle up and off the road, get it off the bridge to clear the traffic.

Call a wrecker.

Wrecker comes out, picks the vehicle up, tows the vehicle to the wrecking yard.

It's two, three, I don't know how many hours it is.

A couple, three hours later, we get the phone call of the missing person.

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I used to work as an overnight shift tow truck driver.

It wasn't anything intense, just sitting in a truck most of the night as the overnight calls for a tow were fairly scarce.

When you were a driver on the overnight shift, you could either stay awake the whole time or catch sleep in your vehicle as long as you kept your radio at a high volume to wake you up if a call did come in.

How did you get involved in the industry, first of all?

Well, growing up in my dad's service station, we had a couple tow trucks, and I really enjoyed operating those.

I don't

want to date you, Terry, but that was in the 1960s.

Jim is a respected leader in the Illinois towing community.

a board member of the Professional Towing and Recovery Operators of Illinois, and a long-time organizer and board member of Tow Trucks for Tots.

Jim also holds a little distinction with me.

Attended several classes, but in one of the classes, he helped shoot the footage at Mad Haze when I did a sequence about teaching about winching using snatch blocks.

A thousand percent.

Thank you.

And Jim, through all of this, you guys have really come to form a remarkable interbreed with this Tow Trucks for Tots.

Am I saying it correctly?