Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.
Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It’s like a homepage without a scroll button?
In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me.
Dewey sent him, I thought, when I saw those eyes.
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